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Qltt from 
Hon. Tasker L. Oddle 
Jan. 14., 1933 




NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 

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ROOM 7 CITY HALL. 
NEW YORK CITY. 

FEBRUARY 28. 1920 

GENERAL ORDERS 

No. 5, 

Series 1919-20 

1. The revision of the Rules and Regulations, United 
Spanish War Veterans, prepared by a special committee 
consisting of Past Department Commander Henry H. 
Saunders of Connecticut, which was adopted and ordered 
printed by enactment of the Nineteenth National Encamp- 
ment, in stated convention assembled at Cleveland, Ohio, 
September 24-26, 1917, is published in the following 
edition together with the Constitution of the organiza- 
tion, as provided by authority of said National Encamp- 
ment, and is promulgated for the government of the 
United Spanish War Veterans, superseding all regulations 
and orders heretofore issued. 

By order of 

Official: WILLIAM JONES, 

Commander-in-Chief. 




CONSTITUTION 



SUMMARY INDEX 



PREAMBLE 



ART. I. NAME. 

ART. II. OBJECTS AND PROHIBITIONS. 

Sec. 1. Objects. 

Sec. 2. Partisan Politics Prohibited. 

Sec. 3. Sectarian Discussions Prohibited. 

ART. III. MEMBERSHIP. 

Sec. 1. Classes of Membership. 

Sec. 2. Eligibility to Active Membership. 

Sec. 3. Eligibility to Honorary Membership. 

Sec. 4. Rights of Honorary Membership. 

ART. IV. ORGANIZATION 

Sec. 1. Enrollment. 

Sec. 2. Subordinate Subdivisions. 

Sec. 3. Government of Subdivisions. 

Sec. 4. Prime Allegiance. 

ART. V. GOVERNMENT. 



Page 
ix 



Xll 

xii 
xiii 
xiv 

xiv 

xiv 
xiv 

XV 

xvii 
xvii 

xvii 
xvii 
xviii 
xviii 

xviii 



ART. VI. THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT. xix 



Sec. 1. Legislative Powers. 

Sec. 2. Judicial Powers. 

Sec. 3. Composition. 

Sec. 4. Alternates. 

Sec. 5. Conventions. 

Sec. 6. Quorum. 

[VII] 



XIX 

xix 

XX 

xxi 
xxi 
xxi 



Page 

Sec. 7. Legislation. xxi 

Sec. 8. Judge of its Own Membership. xxiv 

Sec. 9. Taxation. xxiv 
Sec. 10. Definition of Good Standing of a Camp, xxiv 
Sec. 11. Definition of a Comrade in Good 

Standing. xxv 

Sec. 12. Other Definitions, etc. xxv 

ART. VII. POWERS OF THE COMMAND- 
ER-IN-CHIEF, xxv 

Sec. 1. Executive Power. xxv 

Sec. 2. Suspension, Disbandment, etc. xxv 

Sec. 3. Dispensation. xxvi 

ART. VIII. OFFICERS. xxvi 

Sec. 1. National Officers. xxvi 

Sec. 2. Succession to Commander-in-Chief. xxvii 

Sec. 3. Other Officers. xxvii 

ART. IX. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF AD- 
MINISTRATION. ' xxvii 



ART. X. TRIAL BY COURT-MARTIAL. 

1. Essential Features. 

2. Liability as to Commander-in-Chief. 



Sec. 
Sec. 



xxvni 
xxviii 



ART. XI. IMPEACHMENT. 

ART. XII. AMENDMENTS. 

Sec. 1. Authority. 

Sec. 2. Proposition. 

Sec. 3. Publication of Proposition, etc. 



XXIX 

xxix 
xxix 
xxix 



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PREAMBLE 

On April 21, 1898, the United States of 
America began war with the Kingdom of 
Spain, Avhich war was conceived and prose- 
cuted in a sublime spirit of unselfishness and 
sacrifice, to the end that a people, suffering 
under misrule and struggling against tyranny, 
might be a nation free and independent. The 
Spanish-American War culminated in glorious 
victories on land and sea, and the incidental 
insurrection in the Philippines and the China 
Relief Expedition emphasized the unselfishness 
of our aims and added prestige to our arms. 
All contributed to create an inspiring chapter 
in our country's martial history, emblematic 
of sacrifice and devotion to the principles of 
liberty, equal rights and justice to all mankind, 
and one wdiich must ever act as a stimulus to 
patriotic endeavor in the years to come. 

The completeness of the work accomplished 
by our arms, the high purposes that were the 
compelling forces, and our rise to a great sea 
power enhanced the prestige of our country 
and^ elevated it to a high place in the family 
of great nations. Our fiag is known and re- 
spected in every land and on every sea ; a broad 
spirit of humanity pervades every part of our 
Republic ; sectional lines are obliterated, and 

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X CONSTITUTION 

our people are welded together as one great 
nation, under one flag, and permeated with a 
renewed spirit of national pride. 

The war is over and its campaigns have been 
])rinted in the pages of histor3^ To perpetuate 
the memories there engendered in those who 
participated on the firing Hne, in fever camps, 
and on floating craft ; to honor the memories of 
the comrades who have answered the last roll 
call ; to preach the spirit of patriotism ; to gain 
honorable recognition for those who served 
faithfully and well ; to aid weak and unfortu- 
nate comrades, their families and their de- 
I)endents; to carry the same spirit of sacrifice 
and service exercised in time of war into the 
less spectacular walks of daily life; to battle 
unceasingly for the right in civic affairs; to 
prepare for any service which we can render to 
our country in a time of need; and, finally, to 
constantly exert an influence to the end that 
our government at all times shall provide an 
adequate national defense — all this calls for an 
organization, national in character and scope, 
the members of which shall be solemnly 
])ledged to promote the principles of Freedom, 
Patriotism and Humanity. 

The desire for such an organization mani- 
fested itself during the muster-out of the volun- 
teer forces in 1898, and resulted in the forma- 



Art. I NAME 



XI 



tion of several associations, which were success- 
ful and served a hig^h purpose. The great bene- 
fit to be derived from a union of these associa- 
tions was soon recognized and, in 1904, the 
United Spanish War Veterans was organized 
by the amalgamation of the.National Army and 
Navy Spanish War Veterans, the National As- 
sociation Spanish-American War Veterans, 
and the Service Men of the Spanish War, and 
soon afterwards the Society of the Hispano- 
American War was admitted. Within a few 
years the united organization was greatly 
strengthened by the addition of the Legion of 
Spanish War Veterans, and the Society of the 
Veteran Army of the Philippines. 

To bring about a more complete realization 
and an orderly evolution of the ideals of this 
organization ; to bind the comrades of the 
United Spanish War Veterans more closely to- 
gether in support of the lofty principles and 
purposes of the organization ; and, to define and 
safeguard its fundamental laws, the following 
Constitution is ordained and established. 

Article I. 

NAME. 

This organization, a military and naval 
Order, ;shall be known and designated as the 
L'NiTED Spanish War V'eterans. 



xri CONSTITUTION Art. 2 

Article II. 

OBJECTS AND PROHIBITIONS. 

Section I. Objects. The objects for which 
tliis Order is organized are as follows: 

First. To unite in fraternal bonds, through 
a national organization with state, local and 
other sub-divisions, those men who served 
in the military or naval establishments 
of the United States of America at any 
time during the war with Spain, and at any 
time during the campaigns incidental to and 
growing out of that war. 

Second. To honor the memory and preserve 
from neglect and oblivion the graves of the 
dead. 

Third. To assist former comrades and ship- 
mates, their widows, orphans, and dependent 
relatives, such as need help, encouragement, 
and protection. 

Fourth. To perpetuate the memories of the 
war with Spain and the campaigns in the Phil- 
ippine Islands and in China, and to collect and 
preserve the records of service of the individual 
members of the Order. 

/•"/////. To promote the best interest of those 
who participated in the war with Spain and the 
campaigns in the Philippine Islands^ and in 
China. 



Art. 2 OBJECTS AND PROHIBITIONS XIIT 

Sixth. To inculcate the principles of uni- 
versal liberty, equal rights and justice to all 
mankind, of loyalty to our country, reverence 
for its -institutions, obedience to its laws, and 
respect for its magistrates, to encourage honor 
and purity in public affairs, and to discounte- 
nance whatever tends to weaken these senti- 
ments among our people. 

Seventh. To encourage and promote the 
maintenance of an adequate military and naval 
establishment in our country, and an efficient 
military and naval force in the several states, 
with a proper system for organizing a volun- 
teer army in time of war. 

Eighth. To educate our people to a sense of 
the necessity for making provision for national 
defense, and to the importance of educating and 
training the youth of our land, so that they may 
be able efficiently to serve their country and 
defend the flag in time of war- 

Ninth. To so develop the Order that it may 
be a valuable aid to the army and navy, and 
the government during any future war. 

Section 2. Partisan Politics Prohibited. 

While requiring of every member of the Order 
that he shall perform his full duty as a citizen, 
agreeably to his own conscience and the best 
of his understanding, the United Spanish War 
Veterans shall be absolutely non-partisan, and 



XIV CONSTITUTION Art. 3 

shall not be used for the dissemination of parti- 
san principles, nor for the promotion of the 
candidacy of any person seeking public office 
or preferment ; and no discussion to the further- 
ance of either of those ends shall be permitted 
at any convention or meeting. 

Section 3. Sectarian Discussions Prohibited. 

The religious belief of all sects and denomina- 
tions shall be equally respected in this Order, 
and no discussion or remarks advocating or at- 
tacking the creed, doctrines, or form of wor- 
ship peculiar to any body of believers, shall be 
permitted at any convention or meeting. 

Article III. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Section i. Classes of Membership. This 
Order shall consist of active members termed 
"comrades," limited strictly to the class of per- 
sons defined in section 2 of this article; and, in 
addition thereto, there shall be an honorary 
membership, to be limited strictly to the class 
of persons defined in section 3 of this article. 

Section 2. Eligibility to Active Membership. 

Officers, soldiers and sailors, of the Army, 
Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States of 
America, including acting assistant surgeons, 
contract doctors, dentists, and veterinary sur- 



Art. 3 MEMBERSHIP XV 

geons, all officers and enlisted men in the Uni- 
ted States Revenue Cutter Service on vessels 
temporarily under the control of the War or Navy 
Departments, all commissioned medical officers 
of the United States Marine Hospital Service, 
all officers and enlisted men in the Philippine 
Scouts and other organizations of native troops 
maintained by the War Department in the 
Philippine Islands, and all Paymasters' clerks 
actually on duty in the field or aboard ship, 
who served at any time during the v^^ar be- 
tv^^een the United States of America and the 
Kingdom of Spain, or at any time during the 
war for the suppression of the insurrection in 
the Philippine Islands prior to July 4, 1902, 
and who either have been honorably dis- 
charged from the service or still continue in 
the same, shall be eligible to active member- 
ship in the United Spanish War Veterans; 
provided, however, that no person shall be ad- 
mitted to active membership who, upon inves- 
tigation, is found to be of bad moral character 
or of low repute in the community in which 
he resides, or who, having been honorably dis- 
charged from the service of the United States, 
has re-entered the same and has subsequently 
received a discharge which is not honorable. 

Section 3. Eligibility to Honorary Mem- 
bership. Any American soldier, sailor or 



XVI CONSTITUTION Art. 3 

marine of honorable record who served in any 
war of the Ignited States of America, prior to 
April 21, 1898, includincr alike those who 
ser^•ed during the Civil Wav in the Union or 
Confederate Armies, and any person of either 
sex w^ho, w^ithin the periods of time mentioned 
in section 2 of this article, performed distin- 
guished or faithful service for the United 
States, or actively engaged in efforts for the 
relief of disabled and suffering soldiers, sailors 
and marines, or who, to a conspicuous extent, 
became interested in promoting the moral wel- 
fare and physical comfort of men on duty in 
camp, in the field, or aboard ship, or who 
tendered their services to the government and 
were placed on waiting orders, or who have 
performed or may perform distinguished ser- 
vice beneficial to the organization, shall be eligi- 
ble to honorary membership in any Camp of 
the United Spanish War Veterans; provided, 
however, that such person is not eligible to 
active membership nor debarred from active 
membership by the proviso in section 2 of this 
article; provided, further, that the approval of 
the Department Commander and Commander- 
in-Chief must be obtained before electing to 
honorary membership in a Camp any person 
possessing the foregoing qualifications, except 
veteran soldiers, sailors and marines ; and pro- 



Art. 4 ORGANIZATION XVII 

vided, still further, that the required approval 
of a proposition for honorary membership shall 
be w^ithheld unless the eligibility of the candi- 
date shall be clearly established by the resolu- 
tion from the Camp submitting said proposi- 
tion, and unless the responsible officials are 
convinced, from their own knowledge, or by 
investigation, that the candidate is worthy in 
all respects of the honor sought to be con- 
ferred. 

Section 4. Rights of Honorary Membership. 

The rights of honorary membership shall be 
restricted to the privilege of sitting in the 
meetings of the Camp by which it is conferred, 
without taking any part in the business there- 
of ; provided, however, that by unanimous con- 
sent honorary members of any Camp may sit 
in the meetings of a Camp. 

Article IV. 

ORGANIZATION. 

Section i. Enrollment. The comrades of 
this Order shall be enrolled and hold member- 
ship in local subdivisions thereof, each to be 
styled a *'Camp." No comrade shall be a mem- 
ber of two Camps at the same time. 

Section 2. Subordinate Subdivisions. For 

the better administration of the affairs of the 



XVIII CONSTITUTION Aft. 5 

Order, and to promote its interests, Camps may 
be grouped in state or territorial subdivisions, 
each to be styled a "Department" or a "Provi- 
sional Division," and into municipal and vicin- 
ity subdivisions, as prescribed in the Rules and 
Regulations of the Order. 

Section 3. Government of Subdivisions. All 

Camps, Departments, and other subdivisions, 
shall be subordinate to the supreme governing 
powers of the National organization, and shall 
be governed as prescribed by authority of the 
National Encampment. No comrade ^hall be 
eligible to office in a subordinate subdivision 
who is not in good standing. 

Section 4. Prime Allegiance. While every 
comrade owes allegiance to his Camp and to 
the Department or other subdivision of v/hich 
it mav be a part, his prime allegiance is to the 
Order. 

Article V. 

GOVERNMENT. 

The government of the Order shall be vested 
in the National organization, consisting of a 
supreme legislative body, with judicial powers 
as hereinafter provided, to be designated 
the "National Encampment," and a National 
executive to be designated the "Commander- 



Art. 6 THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT XTX 

in-Chief," with subordinate National officers, 
committees and other agencies designated and 
authorized by this Constitution. 

Article VL 

THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT. 

Section i. Legislative Powers. The Na- 
tional Encampment shall exercise supreme leg- 
islative authority and power over the United 
Spanish War Veterans, limited only by the 
provisions of this Constitution, and by the 
terms and provisions of all the agreements of 
amalgamation heretofore entered into by the 
various associations now composing this Order. 

Section 2. Judicial Powers. The National 
Encampment shall exercise the judicial powers 
prescribed for it in article XI of this Constitu- 
tion, and is the court of final resort of the 
Order, but the National Encampment shall 
delegate its powers as such court of final resort, 
under the limitations hereinafter prescribed in 
this section, to a Committee on Appeals and 
Grievances, to be appointed by the Comman- 
der-in-Chief with the approval of a majority of 
the National Council of Administration, a 
majority of said Committee to be members of 
the legal profession. Such Committee on Ap- 
peals and Grievances shall report to the Na- 



XX CONSTITUTION Art. 6 

tional Encampment, for the information of that 
body, its action on all matters submitted to it, 
but no question or matter passed upon by said 
Committee shall be considered or discussed by 
a convention of the National Encampment ex- 
cept by and upon a two-thirds vote of all mem- 
bers present and voting, and no decision of said 
Committee shall be rejected or reversed ex- 
cept by and upon a two-thirds vote of such 
members present and voting. 

Section 3. Composition. The National En- 
campment shall consist of members as follows : 

First. The National ofBcers for the time be- 
ing, both elective and appointive, except Aides- 
de-Camp on the stafif of the Commander-in- 
Chief. 

Second. All Past Commanders-in-Chief who 
are in good standing in their respective Camps. 

Third. All Department Commanders, and 
all Past Department Commanders who are in 
good standing in their respective Camps. 

Fourth. All Provisional Division Comman- 
ders, and all Senior Vice Department Comman- 
ders and Junior Vice Department Comman- 
ders for the time being who are in good stand- 
ing in their respective Camps. 

Fifth. Delegates, or their alternates, from 
each duly constituted Department, not under 
suspension, in the ratio of four Delegates-at- 



Art. 6 LEGISLATION XXI 

Large from each Department to be repre- 
sented. Each delegate and alternate niust be 
a member in good standing of a Camp in good 
standing of the Department. 

Sixth. Delegates, or their alternates, from 
each duly constituted Camp in good standing, 
whether within the jurisdiction of a Depart- 
ment or unattached, in the ratio prescribed in 
the Rules and Regulations of the Order. Each 
delegate and alternate must be a member in 
good standing in his Camp. 

Section 4. Alternates. The right of repre- 
sentation by alternates, and the rights of alter- 
nates, shall be as prescribed by authority of 
the National Encampment. 

Section 5. Conventions. An annual stated 
convention of the National Encampment shall 
be held, and special conventions may be called, 
at such time and in such manner as may be 
prescribed by authority of the National En- 
campment. 

Section 6. Quorum. At all conventions of 
the National Encampment any number of 
members shall constitute a quorum, provided 
that representatives of not less than ten differ- 
ent Departments are present and sitting. 

Section 7 Legislation, a. The supreme 
legislative authority of the National fCncamp- 



XXTI CONSTITUTION Art. 6 

ment shall be expressed in formal enactments 
adopted at its conventions, which shall consti- 
tute the permanent or temporary laws of the 
Order. 

b. Enactments establishinf^ laws of a per- 
manent character shall constitute and be pub- 
lished as the Rules and Regulations of the 
Order; provided, however, that enactments 
establishing- ritualistic and ceremonial forms 
and instructions shall be published in a Ritual 
and a Book of Ceremonies, and that enact- 
ments establishing forms and procedure shall 
be published as may be directed from time to 
time by authority of the National Encamp- 
ment. 

c. Enactments other than those estab- 
lishing permanent laws for the government of 
the Order shall be classed as special enact- 
ments and shall be published as directed by au- 
thority of the National Encampment. 

d. The wishes, sentiments and opinions 
of the National Encampment in matters not 
requiring legislative action shall be expressed 
in formal resolutions which in each case shall 
be published as directed. All recommenda- 
tions contained in resolutions adopted by the 
National Encampment shall be fulfilled. 

e. Proposed enactments inxolving amend- 
ments of or additions to the Rules and Regu- 



Art. 6 LEGISLATION XXIII 

lations, the Ritual, the Book of Ceremonies, 
and Forms and Procedure, shall require for 
adoption, a two-thirds vote of all members 
present and voting at a stated or special con- 
vention of the National Encampment ; other 
proposed enactments and resolutions shall re- 
quire for adoption a majority vote of all mem- 
bers present and voting. Any enactment 
adopted by the National Encampment shall in 
addition require the approval of the incoming 
Commander-in-Chief. Should he fail to approve 
or disapprove within thirty days after the ad- 
journment of the National Encampment, an en- 
actment shall be operative without his ap- 
proval. Should the incoming Commander-in- 
Chief disapprove any enactment adopted, he 
shall submit such disapproval with his reasons 
therefor to the National Council of Administra- 
tion, and if the National Council of Adminis- 
tration concurs by a majority vote, such enact- 
ment shall be suspended until the next stated 
convention of the National Encampment and 
notice of such suspension shall be published at 
once in General Orders. If the next stated 
convention of the National Encampment shall 
again adopt such enactment by a majority vote 
of all members present and voting it shall be 
declared adopted and operative without the ap- 
proval of the Commander-in-Chief. 



xxrv CONSTITUTION Art. 6 

f. The Rules and Regulations of the 
Order shall not be suspended by the National 
Encampment in convention assembled, except 
for a definite purpose, and then only b'y a two- 
thirds vote of all members present and voting; 
nor shall any section of the Rules and Regula- 
tions be suspended, unless by unanimous con- 
sent, that gives any right to a minority as small 
as one-third- 

Section 8. Judge of its Own Membership. 

The National Encampment is the judge of its 
own membership subject to the restrictions of 
this Constitution. 

Section 9. Taxation. The National En- 
campment is empowered to establish such a 
system of taxation as may be necessary and 
desirable. 

Section 10. Definition of Good Standing of a 
Camp. A Camp whose charter has not been 
revoked, nor s'uspended, and which is not "de- 
linquent," is in "good standing." A Camp is 
"delinquent" when it is indebted to the Nation- 
al organization, or to the Department to which 
it is attached, in any sum whatever or for any 
report required by the Rules and Regulations 
for over thirty days from the time when such 
amount or report was due. 



Art. 7 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF XXV 

Section ii. Definition of a Comrade in Good 
Standing. A comrade is in "g-ood standing;" 
when he is not deprived of any of his rights by 
sentence of a Court Martial, is not under sus- 
pension, and is not "delinquent." A comrade is 
''delinquent" when he is in arrears for dues for 
over three months, or for fines for over thirty 
days. 

Section 12. Other Definitions, etc. All defi- 
nitions, of powders, prerogatives and functions 
and all other matters not specifically set forth 
in this Constitution shall be as prescribed by 
authority of the National Encampment. 

Article VII. 

POWERS OF THE COMMANDER- 
IN-CHIEF. 

Section i. Executive Power. As the Chief 
Executive of the United Spanish War Veterans 
the Commander-in-Chief shall be possessed of 
full power to enforce the provisions of this Con- 
stitution and the will of the National Encamp- 
ment pursuant thereto. 

Section 2. Suspension, Disbandment, etc. 

He shall have the power to suspend any De- 
partment or Camp, or disband the same and 
revoke the charter thereof for violation of any 



XXVI CONSTITUTION Art. 8 

of the provisions of this Constitution or of the 
Rules and Regulations, or of any other enact- 
ment of the National Encampment, or for any 
neglect or refusal to obey his lawful orders, and 
to discontinue any Provisional Division at his 
discretion. 

Section 3. Dispensation. He shall have the 
power, upon application in writing, in the in- 
tervals between conventions of the National 
Encampment, to grant dispensation in specific 
cases for suspension of the methods of pro- 
cedure established for the government of the 
Order, provided the same is not inconsistent 
with the provisions of this Constitution ; and 
provided, further, that each special dispensa- 
tion so granted shall be reported to the Na- 
tional Encampment for its approval or disap- 
proval. 

Article YIII. 

OFFICERS. 

Section i. National Officers. Besides the 
Commander-in-Chief, the National Officers shall 
consistofa Senior A^ice Commander-in-Chief and 
a Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief, all three of 
whom to be elected by a National Encamp- 
ment at the stated convention thereof, to serve 
for a term of une year and until the qualifica- 



Art. 9 OFFICERS XXVII 

tion of their successors elected by the succeed- 
ing National Encampment, and such other offi- 
cers as may be prescribed by authority of the 
National Encampment. A comrade who is not 
in good standing shall not be eligible to a Na- 
tional office. 

Section 2. Succession to Commander-in- 
Chief. vShould the office of Commander-in- 
Chief become vacant, the Senior Vice Com- 
mander-in-Chief shall succeed to the same for 
the balance of the unexpired term, and he shall 
be succeeded in his office by the Junior Vice 
Commander-in-Chief for the balance of the un- 
expired term. 

Section 3. Other Officers. The method of 
electing and of appointing officers and of fill- 
ing vacancies, except as provided in this 
article, shall be as prescribed in the Rules and 
Regulations of the Order. 

Article IX. 

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF 
ADMINISTRATION. 

A National Council of Administration shall 
be constituted in such manner, and w^ith such 
powders, consistent w^ith this Constitution, as 
shall be prescribed by the National Encamp- 
ment. 



XXVIII CONSTITUTION Art. II 

Article X. 

TRIAL BY COURT-MARTIAL. 

Section i. Essential Features. No penalty 
for a violation of the Code of Discipline of the 
Order shall be inflicted until the comrade 
accused has had a fair and impartial trial by 
court-martial upon written charges and speci- 
fications and a majority of the court are for 
conviction. 

Section 2. Liability as to Commander-in- 
Chief. The Commander-in-Chief shall not be 
liable to trial by court-martial during his ten- 
ure of office, but at the end of his term, or after 
resignation or removal upon impeachment, he 
may be tried for offenses committed while in 
office or prior thereto. 

Article XI. 

IMPEACHMENT. 

The Commander-in-Chief alone shall be 
liable to impeachment for malfeasance in office 
or for misconduct of a nature likely to bring 
the organization into disrepute, whether or not 
the acts complained of are specially prohibited 
by the Code of Discipline. The National En- 
campment shall try all impeachments sitting as 
a court, and the method of procedure and the 
conviction and sentence in the case <.)f an im- 



Art. 12 AMENDMENTS XXIX 

peachment trial, shall be as prescribed in the 
Rules and Regulations of the Order. 

Article XII. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Section i. Authority. This Constitution 
may be altered, amended, or added to by a two- 
thirds vote of all members present and voting 
at two consecutive stated conventions of the Na- 
tional Encampment. 

Section 2. Proposition. A proposition to 
alter or amend the Constitution in any manner 
may be submitted by any Department Encamp- 
ment or by any ten members of the National 
Encampment. 

Section 3. Publication of Proposition, etc. 

The original proposition may be discussed, al- 
tered or amended at either of the stated conven- 
tions having consideration thereof. The origi- 
nally proposed amendment, with any suggested 
alteration, shall be published and submitted 
for the information of every Camp of the Order 
at least six months before the convening of the 
second stated convention of the National En- 
campment to which such proposition is to be 
submitted. The action of the second conven- 
tion of the National Encampment having con- 
sideration of the proposition shall be final. 



SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF RULES 
AND REGULATIONS 1910 

Appointed in General Orders No. 7, Series 1909, pur- 
suant to vote of the Fifth National Encampment. 

Past Commander-in-Chief Willis W. Stover of the 
Department of Massachusetts. 

Adjutant General Henry H. Saunders of the Depart- 
ment of Connecticut. 

Inspector General Louis Epple of the Department of 
Massachusetts. 

National Aide-de-Camp Oscar T. Taylor of the Depart- 
ment of Pennsylvania. 

Department Judge Advocate W. Martin Watson of the 
Department of New York. 

Members ex officio 
Commander-in-Chief Charles W. Newton 
Commander-in-Chief Edward J. Gihon. 

Note: Comrade Watson did not serve and upon retiring as Com- 
mander-in-Chief, Comrade Newton was substituted for him on the 
committee, after which Commander-in-Chief Gihon became member 
ex-offi-cio. 

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF RULES 
AND REGULATIONS 1920 

Past Department Commander, Henry H. Saunders of 
the Department of Connecticut. 

Members ex officio 

Commander-in-Chief Daniel V. Chisholm. 

Commander-in-Chief William Jones. 

Note: Special Committee appointed in 1916 by Comrad 
Chisholm, then Commander-in-Chief. Publication in charge of 
said special committee, under the direction of Commander-in- 
Chief Jones. 



[XXX] 



RULES 




and 




REGULATIONS 




CONTENTS 




Part One General Provisions 


Page 

I 


Part Two Camps 


7 


Part Three Councils 


86 


Part Four Departments and 

Provisional Divisions 
Sub-Part i. Departments 
Sub-Part 2. Provisional Divisions 


94 
H5 


Part Five National Organization 
Sub-Part i. National Encampment 
Sub-Part 2: National Council of 

Administration 
Sub-Part 3. National Officers and 

Committees 
Sub-Part 4. National Finance 


148 

174 
212 


Part Six Administration 


219 


Part Seven Equipment 


278 


Plates 


310 



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Part One 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 



SUMMARY IN'Dp;X 







Page 


ART. I. 


CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS. 


2 


ART. II. 


SUBORDINATE SUBDIVISIONS. 


2 


Sec. 1. 
Sec. 2. 


Organization. 
Limitations. 


2 
3 


ART. III. 


NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. 


4 


Sec. 3. 


Location. 


4 


ART. IV. 


GOVERNMENT OF UNATTACHED 
CAMPS. 


5 


Sec. 4. 


Definition. 


5 


ART. V. 


GENERAL DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 


5 


Sec. 5. 


Scope. 


5 


ART. VI. 


BONDING. 


5 


Sec. 6. 


Invariable Rule, 


5 


ART. VII. 


OBSERVANCES. 


6 


Sec. 7. 
Sec. 8. 


Memorial Day. 

Other Days to be Observed. 

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2 GENERAL PROVISIONS Part I 

Article I. 

CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS. 

These Rules and Regulations of the United 
States Spanish War Veterans, are based on 
the Constitution which contains the funda- 
mental laws of the organization and authority 
for enactment by the National Encampment of 
the laws herein set forth. 

Article II. 
SUBORDINATE SUBDIVISIONS. 

Section i. Organization, a. In accord- 
ance with section 2, article IV of the Consti- 
tution, the Camps of the organization may or 
shall, under conditions hereinafter prescribed, 
be grouped in municipal or vicinity subdivi- 
sions, each to be styled a "Council," and also 
in state or territorial subdivisions, each to be 
styled a ''Department;" Camps located in ter- 
ritory not under the jurisdiction of a Depart- 
ment may also, under certain conditions herein- 
after prescribed, be temporarily grouped in 
state or territorial subdivisions, each to be 
styled a ''Provisional Division." 

b. Camps not under the jurisdiction of a 
Department may for convenience be referred 
to as "unattached" Camps. Camps composed 
of members, all of whom belong to some one 



Art. 2 SUBORDINATE SUB-DIVISIONS 3 

regiment or other unit of the United States 
Army, or to some one ship of the United States 
Navy, may for convenience be referred to as 
"traveling" Camps, and the location of a trav- 
eling Camp shall be the place where such 
regiment or unit, or where such ship, is sta- 
tioned, and shall change from time to time as 
the station of such unit or ship is changed. 

Section 2. Limitations, a. All Camps or- 
ganized into a Council shall be subordinate 
thereto, but independent of all other Councils, 
except that Camps in a Municipal Council may 
also be in a Vicinity Council. 

b. All Camps located in territory within the 
jurisdiction of a Department, except traveling 
Camps not attached thereto, shall be directly 
subordinate to such Department, but independ- 
ent of all other Departments and Provisional 
Divisions. » 

c. All Camps within the jurisdiction of a 
Provisional Division shall be directly subordi- 
nate to the National organization through offi- 
cers appointed by the Commander-in-Chief, 
but independent of all Departments and other 
Provisional Divisions. All other unattached 
Camps shall be directly subordinate to the Na- 
tional organization- 

d. All Councils within the jurisdiction of a 



4 GENiiiRAL rKOvTSioNS Part 1 

Department or Provisional Division shall be 
directly subordinate to the superior subdivision 
to which the Camps thereof are subordinate 
under the provisions of subsections b and c 
of this section, and each shall be independent 
of all other Councils. 

e. In accordance with section 3, article I\' 
of the Constitution, all subordinate subdivi- 
sions shall be subject to the governing powders 
of the National or^^anization. 



Article III. 

NATIONAL HEAD0UARTP:RS. 

Section 3. Location. The office of the 
chief executive of the United Spaxtsit A\\\r 
A^ETERANS shall bc styled "National Head- 
quarters" and shall be locate/1 at the place 
of residence of the Commander-in-Chief, or as 
otherwise designated by him in orders: pro- 
vided, however, that such National Head- 
quarters shall be located at a place within the 
domestic territory of the LTnited States, and not 
in a foreign country or in the foreign posses- 
sions of the United States, even though the 
Commander-in-Chief ma}- reside in such for- 
eign parts. 



Art. 6 NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 5 

Article IV. 

GOVERNMENT OF UNATTACHED 
CAMPS. 

Section 4. Definition. The |^overnin<;- pow- 
ers of the National or^^anization shall stand 
toward all unattached Camps in the relation of 
the pfoverning powers of a Department : and 
the National officers shall perform all the 
duties with respect to unattached Camps as 
are prescribed for the corresponding officers of 
a Department with respect to Camps within 
its jurisdiction. 

Article V- 

GENERAL DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 

Section 5. Scope. In addition to the 
duties prescribed by the Constitution and these 
Rules and Regulations, all officers and past 
officers shall perform such other duties as may 
be required of them b}' the Ritual and the 
Book of Ceremonies. 

Article VI. 

BONDING. 

Section 6. Invariable Rule. Each account- 
able officer of the organization shall be bonded, 
with an indemnity company as surety, in a 



6 GENERAL PROVISIONS Part I 

sum at least double the amount of funds and 
value of property for which, so far as can be 
anticipated, he may be accountable. The fee 
for the bond shall be paid from the funds of the 
National organization. Department, Council, or 
Camp, as the case may be, to which each officer 
is accountable. 

Article VII. 

OBSERVANCES. 

Section 7. Memorial Day. The thirtieth 
day of May in each year shall be observed by 
this organization as Memorial Day, in the 
manner prescribed by established custom 
among veterans- Whenever the thirtieth day 
of May falls upon Sunday the thirty-first day 
of May shall be so observed. 

Section 8. Other Days to be Observed. 

Ilie Camps shall observe Flag Day, and an 
Annual Muster Day on the 21st day of April 
in each year ; provided, however, that when- 
ever a camp, owing to local conditions, is un- 
able to observe Annual Muster Day on x\pril 
2 1st, said day shall be observed on the nearest 
convenient date. Departments and Camps 
may provide in their by-laws, or otherwise, for 
the observance of anniversaries of events con- 
nected with the War with Spain, and its inci- 
dental campaigns. 



Part Two 



CAMPS 



SUMMARY INDEX 

Page 
ART. I. FORMATION. 12 
Sec. 9. Application for Charter. 12 
Sec. 10. Commission for First Meeting. 12 
Sec. 11. Proceedings at First Meeting. 13 
Sec. 12. Institution. 15 
Sec. 13. Name and Number. 16 
Sec. 14. Reorganization of Disbanded Camps. 17 
Sec. 15. Change of Location. 17 
Sec. 16. ConsoUdation. 18 
Sec. 17. Limitation of Camps in Small Munici- 
palities. 19 

ART. II. OUTPOSTS. 19 

Sec. 18. Formation and Government. 19 



ART. III. DELINQUENCY OF CAMPS: PENAL- 
TIES AND REINSTATEMENT 20 
Sec. 19. Proceedings on Delinquency. 20 

Sec. 20. Privileges Lost by Delinquent Camps. 22 

Sec. 21. Suspended Camps: When to be Disbanded. 23 

ART. IV. ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP. 23 

Sec. 22. Charter Members. 23 

Sec. 23. Application for Membership. 25 

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I'ii; 



Sec. 24. Recommendation and Presentation. 

Sec. 25. Action of Investigating Committee. 

Sec. 26. Withdrawal of Application. 

Sec. 27. Ballot on Application. 

Sec. 28. Rejection. 

Sec. 29. Notice of Election. 

Sec. 30. Effect of Failure to Appear for Muster-in. 

Sec. 31. Application Fee to be Paid Before 

Muster-in. 

Sec. 32. Muster-in. 

Sec. 33. Readmission after Honorable Discharge. 

Sec. 34. Life Membership. 

Sec. 35. Admission to Honorary Membership. 

ART. V. TRANSFER. 

Sec. 36. How Granted. 

Sec. 37. Transfer to Become Charter Member of 

New Camp. 

Sec. 38. Completion of Transfer. 

Sec. 39. Transfer Issued by a Delinquent Camp. 

ART. VI. VISITING CARDS. 

Sec. 40. Form. 

Sec. 41. How Issued. 

Sec. 42. Privileges Attaching to Visiting Cards. 

ART. VII. FURLOUGHS. 

Sec. 43. To Whom Granted. 

Sec. 44. Duration. 

Sec. 45. Expiration. 

ART. VIII. DISCHARGE. 

Sec. 46. Definition. 

Sec. 47. Honorable Discharge. 

Sec. 48. Dishonorable Discharge. 

Sec. 49. Property to be Returned. 



25 
26 
27 
27 
28 
28 
29 

29 
29 
30 
31 
31 

33 
33 

35 
35 
36 

36 
36 
36 

37 

37 
37 
38 
38 

38 
38 
39 
39 
39 



'art 2 SUMMARY INDEX 9 

PaKo 
Sec. 50. Honorable Discharge: To Whom Granted. 40 
Sec. 51. Certificate of Discharge. 40 

Sec. 52. Publication of Dishonorable Discharge. 40 



.RT. IX. OFFICERS. 41 

Sec. 53. Eligibility. 41 

Sec. 54. Roster. 41 

Sec. 55. How Chosen. 42 

Sec. 56. Term of Office. 42 

Sec. 57. Nomination. 43 

Sec. 58. Tellers. 43 

Sec. 59. Return of Tellers Final. 44 

Sec. 60. Report of Election. 44 

Sec. 61. Installation. 44 

Sec. 62. Vacancies in Elective Offices: How Filled. 45 

Sec. 63. Removal of Appointive Officers. 45 

Sec. 64. Vacancies in Appointive Offices: How 

Filled. 45 

RT. X. DUTIES OF OFFICERS 46 

Sec. 65. Commander. 46 

Sec. 66. Vice Commanders. 48 

Sec. 67. Chairman Pro Tempore. 48 

Sec. 68. Adjutant. 49 

Sec. 69. Quartermaster. 52 

Sec. 70. Trustees. 55 

Sec. 71. Patriotic Instructor. 

Sec. 72. Historian. 

Sec. 73. Surgeon. 

Sec. 74. Chaplain. 

Sec. 75. Officer of the Day. 

Sec. 76. Officer of the Guard. 

Sec. 77. Sergeant Major and Qi 

Sergeant. 

Sec. 78. Color Sergeants. 

Sec. 79. Chief Musician. 



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Part 2 



ART. XI. DELEGATES. 



Sec. 80. 

Sec. 81. 

Sec. 82. 

Sec. 83. 



Sec. 
Sec. 



84. 
85. 



86. 



Sec 

Sec. 87 

Sec. 88 

Sec. 89 

Sec. 90 

Sec. 91 



ART. XII. 
Sec. 92. 
Sec. 
Sec. 
Sec. 
Sec. 



93. 

94. 
95. 
96. 



To First Convention of Department En- 
campment. 

To National Encampment. 

Ratio for National Encampment. 

Basis of Representation in National En- 
campment. 

To Department Encampment. 

Basis of Representation in Department 
Encampment. 

Qualifications. 

Report of Election. 

How Chosen. 

Vacancies: How Filled. 

Rights of Alternates. 

Term of Office. 

MEETINGS. 

Stated Meetings. 

Special Meetings. 

Quorum. 

Procedure at Meetings. 

Emergencies. 



Page 
62 

62 
63 
63 

63 

64 

64 
65 
65 
65 
66 
67 
67 

67 
67 
68 
68 
68 
71 



ART. XIII. PER CAPITA TAX AND SEMI- 
ANNUAL REPORT. 71 
Sec. 97. National Per Capita Tax. 71 
Sec. 98. Department Per Capita Tax. 72 
Sec. 99. Per Capita Tax: Basis of Computation. 72 
Sec. 100. Per Capita Tax: How Paid. 73 
Sec. 101. Disputed Taxes and Fees. 73 
Sec. 102. Semi- Annual Report. 74 

ART. XIV. REVENUE. 74 

Sec. 103. Sources. 74 

Sec. 104. Annual Dues: When Payable. 75 



Part 2 SUMMARY INDEX II 

Page 

ART. XV. EXEMPTIONS. 75 

Sec. 105. When Granted. 75 

ART. XVI. DELINQUENCY OF COMRADES: 

PENALTIES AND REINSTATE- 
MENT. 75 



Sec. 106. 


Proceedings on Delinquency. 


75 


Sec. 107. 


Effect of Suspension. 


77 


Sec. 108. 


Office to be Vacated. 


77 


Sec. 109. 


Reinstatement. 


77 


Sec. 110. 


Comrades in Suspension: When to be 






Dropped from Membership. 


78 


Sec. 111. 


Readmission after Disbandment, or 






Revocation of Charter. 


79 


Sec. 112. 


Fines. 


79 


ART. XVII 


. COUNTERSIGN. 


80 


Sec. 113. 


Issued to Camps in Good Standing. 


80 


ART. XVIII. RELIEF FUND. 


81 


Sec. 114. 


How Established. 


81 


Sec. 115. 


How Administered. 


81 


ART. XIX. 


BY-LAWS. 


82 


Sec. 116. 


Requirements. 


82 


Sec. 117. 


How Altered and Amended. 


82 


ART. XX. 


DISBANDMENT. 


83 


Sec. 118. 


Limitation. 


83 


Sec. 119. 


Order for Disbandment. 


83 


Sec. 120. 


Proceedings on Disbandment. 


84 


Sec. 121. 


Final Disposition of Records and 






Property. 


84 



Sec. 122. Proceedings on Revocation of Charter, 85 



12 'CAMPS Part 2 

Article I. 

i'OR.MATIOX. 

Section 9. Application for Charter. A 

Camp may be iormcd by the authority of the 
Commander-in-Chief, on the written appHcation 
of not less than ten persons, all of whom are 
comrades, or are eligible to become comrades, 
in the United Spanish War \'eterans; and no 
Camp shall be recognized unless it exists by 
virtue of, and is acting under, the authority 
of a dispensation or a legal and un forfeited 
charter. If a new Camp is to be located within 
the territorial jurisdiction of a Department, the 
application for charter shall be forwarded to 
the Commander-in-Chief, through Department 
Headquarters of such Department, and shall 
be either approved or disapproved by the De- 
partment Commander, who shall, in case he 
disapproves the same, indorse thereon a full 
statement of the reasons for his disapproval. 
In all cases when necessary, the application f<^r 
charter shall be accompanied by evidence in 
writing that the same has been approved as 
required b}' section 17 hereof. 

Section 10. Commission for First Meeting, 
l^pon approving an appHcation for charter, the 
Commander-in-Chief shall issue a commission 
addressed to one of the signers of the applica- 



Art. I FORMATION 13 

tion, directing" him to call a meeting- of the 
applicants and such other persons as are 
eligible to become comrades and are desirous 
of becoming charter members of the proposed 
Camp, giving them not less than four days' 
notice of the time and place of such first meet- 
ing. The object of such first meeting shall be 
to complete and perfect the organization of the 
Camp. The commission shall be in such form 
as shall be prescribed by authority of the 
National Encampment, and shall embody the 
following features : an order for the first meet- 
ing; complete instructions as to the steps to be 
taken in organizing the Camp ; a blank form of 
report of the proceedings of the meeting; and 
such additional provisions as may appear to be 
helpful in furthering the objects desired, either 
in furnishing full information to the organizers, 
or in causing a complete return of their doings 
to come to the hand of the Commander-in- 
Chief. 

Section 11. Proceedings at First Meeting. 

The meeting shall be called to order by the 
aoplicant to whom the commission is ad- 
dressed, who shall read the commission, and 
thereupon the meeting shall choose a chair- 
man, who shall immediately take charge of the 
meeting-, and business shall then be taken up 
as follows : — - 



14 



CAMPS Part 2 



First. Choice of a clerk. 

Second. Choice of a treasurer. 

Third. Fixing of the fee for admission to 
charter members, which shall not be less in 
amount than as prescribed in section 103 
hereof. 

A recess shall then be declared, and the 
treasurer shall collect the admission fee as 
fixed. Upon calling the meeting to order after 
the recess, the chairman shall direct any per- 
sons present who have failed to pay said fee 
to retire from the meeting, and no person shall 
be entitled or permitted to take part in the 
subsequent proceedings until he has deposited 
his fee with the treasurer. The meeting shall 
then proceed to transact the following 
business : — • 

First. The selection of a name for the Camp. 

Second. The adoption of a code of by-laws 
for the regulation of its local and internal 
affairs. 

Third. The election of officers. 

Fourth. The appointment of a committee to 
make arrangements for the institution of the 
Camp. 

Fifth. Action on any pertinent subjects. 

Sixth. Adjournment. 

Adjournment shall be subject to the call of 
the chairman. The chairman, clerk, and treas- 



Art. I FORMATION 1 5 

urer chosen at the first meeting shall be the 
temporary officers of the Camp, and shall con- 
tinue to act until the installation of the perma- 
nent officers. 

Section 12. Institution. The commission, 
with the proceedings of the meeting certified 
thereon by the temporary officers, shall be re- 
turned to National Headquarters, through De- 
partment Headquarters if the Camp is to be 
within the jurisdiction of a Department, to- 
gether with a list of the applicants who have 
paid the fee for charter membership, a copy 
of the by-laws, and a charter fee of ten dollars, 
of which sum five dollars shall be retained by 
Department Headquarters if the Camp is 
to be within the jurisdiction of the Depart- 
ment. If, upon examination, any errors or 
omissions are discovered, the commission and 
records shall be returned to the chairman, and 
he shall reconvene the meeting for the purpose 
of correcting the errors or supplying such 
omissions, after which the proceedings shall 
again be forwarded to National Headquarters. 
If found to be correct, the Commander-in-Chief 
shall direct the Department Commander to 
have the Camp instituted at a time mutually 
agreed upon by the Department Commander 
and the Camp. At the time agreed upon, the 
Department Commander, either in person or 



1 6 cA:^rps Part 2 

by an officer detailed by him for that purpose, 
shall institute the Camp, administer the obli- 
i^ration to the applicants, and install the officers 
elected and appointed. 

In case the Camp is not located in territory 
within the jurisdiction of a Department, the 
Commander-in-Chief shall detail an officer to 
institute the Camp. A Camp, with the con- 
sent of the Commander-in-Chief, may keep its 
charter list open for a period not exceedinj^- 
sixty days from the date of institution durini^ 
which period of time it shall act under a dis- 
pensation p^ranted by the Commander-in-Chief. 

Section 13. Name and Number. Camps 
shall be desipiated by a name, to be selected 
at the first meeting, and a number, to be as- 
signed by the Commander-in-Chief; but no 
more than one Camp in the same Department 
shall adopt the same name, and no Camp shall 
be named after a li\ing person, except it be for 
one who, during the Spanish \\'ar, Philippine 
Insurrection, or China campaign, rendered 
conspicuous service in the Army, Xa\y. or 
Marine Corps, or was distinguished as a citi- 
zen for acts of l)en.e\'olence in behalf of those 
in the ser\ice : i^roxidt-d that in all cases the 
name adopted 1)\- a new C'am]) shall be ap- 
])roved by the Commander-in-Chief: and pro- 
vided, further, that the numbers assigned to 



Art. I ■ FORMATION 17 

Camps shall be consecutive in the order of the 
i^ranting of their charters in their respective 
D'epartments. 

Section 14. Reorganization of Disbanded 
Camps. A Camp which has been disbanded 
may be reorganized by the authority of the 
Commander-in-Chief with its original number, 
and may adopt its original name, provided that 
this has not been appropriated, on the written 
application of not less than ten of its former 
members. The proceedings for reorganization 
shall be as prescribed for the formation of a 
new Camp, and a new charter shall be issued 
bearing the names of any new applicants as 
well as those of the former members making 
application therefor. 

Section 15. Change of Location. A Camp 
may change its location from one municipality 
to another by a two-thirds vote of the members 
present at a regular meeting, or at a special 
meeting called for the purpose, provided that 
at least thirty days' notice of such proposed 
action has been given to all its members; and 
provided that such change of location be ap- 
proved b)' the Department Commander and by 
the Commander-in-Chief; or. if such Camp be 
unattached, that such change of location be 
approved by the Commander-in-Chief. 



1 8 (AMPS Part 2 

Section i6. Consolidation. When two or 
more Camps desire to consolidate, written or 
printed notice of such proposed action shall be 
given to all members in good standing in each 
of such Camps at least two weeks prior to the 
date of the meeting at which such proposition 
is to be considered. If such proposition shall 
be then adopted in each Camp by a vote of 
two-thirds of the members in good standing 
present and voting at such meeting, the vote 
being recorded by ayes and noes, the result 
shall be duly certified by each Camp to the De- 
partment Commander, who shall indorse his 
approval or disapproval thereon and forward 
the same to the Commander-in-Chief: or if all 
the Camps concerned be unattached, then to 
the Commander-in-Chief direct. If the Com- 
mander-in-Chief approves, he shall authorize 
such consolidation, and he shall issue, without 
charge, a new charter, reciting the facts of such 
consolidation, and bearing the names of all 
members in good standing in such Camps. The 
new Camp shall bear the number and shall 
rank from the date of the charter of the senior 
CaniD, but a new name or the name of any of 
the former Camps may be taken when ap- 
proved by a majority vote of the members 
present and voting at the first meeting of the 
consolidated Camp, provided that the provi- 
sions of section 13 hereof shall apply where a 



Art. 2 OUTPOSTS 19 

new name is taken. At such first meeting the 
officers of the new Camp shall be chosen, and 
shall forthwith enter upon their new duties. 
The property of the Camps consolidated shall 
be conveyed to and become the property of the 
new Camp. All Past Commanders of each 
Camp consolidated in the new Camp shall be 
entitled to rank as of date of service in their 
respective Camps. 

Section 17- Limitation of Camps in Small 
Municipalities. No new Camp shall be formed 
in, or chartered Camp transferred to, a munici- 
pality of less than ten thousand inhabitants 
without the approval of a Camp already lo- 
cated therein and in good standing, as ex- 
pressed by a majority vote of its members at 
any regular or special meeting; and there shall 
not be more than tw^o Camps in existence at 
the same time in any such municipality. 

Article II. 
OUTPOSTS. 

Section 18. Formation and Government. 

a. With the approval of the Department 
Commander or, in case of an unattached Camp 
with the approval of the Commander-in-Chief, 
a detachment of members of the organization 
not to exceed ten comrades, to be termed an 



20 ' CAMPS Part 2 

"(Jutpost/' nici\ be urgani/ed by a Camp in a 
locaUty proximate to its home station and at- 
tached thereto. 

b. An Outpost shall l^e in charge of an 
officer of a Camp, detailed by the Commander, 
or of a member of the Outpost detailed by the 
Commander for that purpose, who shall be 
designated "Sergeant in Command of Out- 
post." 

c. An officer in charge of an Outpost shall 
render to the Commander of the Camp a 
nionthly report of the meetings thereof and 
report on other matters of interest in connec- 
tion therewith. 

d. The Commander of a Camp to which 
an Outpost may be attached shall note on the 
semi-annual report of the Camp the location 
of the Outpost and the number of its members, 
and shall report to the Department Comman- 
der such facts concerning the Outpost as may 
be necessary to inform him n\ the work which 
is beinsT done in connection therewith. 



Article III. 

DET.TXOrEXCV OF CAAIPS: 
rE\ALTIh:s'AXD REIXSTATEMENT. 

Section ig. Proceedings on Delinquency. 

Where a C'ani]) shall l)ec(^nu' (k'liii(|uent. as de- 



Art. 3 DELINQUENCV OF CAMPS 21 

lined in section lO, article VI of the Constitu- 
tion, for non-payment of taxes or failure to 
render reports due, action shall be taken as 
follows : 

First. In case of the delinquency of a Camp 
of a Department the Department Commander 
shall thereupon make a demand upon the Camp 
for the rendering of the report or the pay- 
ment of the amount due and shall allow said 
Camp ten days in which to transmit such re- 
port or to remit the amount due, or present an 
excuse for not so doing. Should a Camp make 
such representations as to convince the De- 
partment Commander that the delinquency is 
unavoidable, he may allow further time, not 
exceeding three months, for the Camp to ren- 
der the report or make the payment in 
arrears. If the Department Commander shall 
not allow further time, he shall so notify the 
Camp ; and if, at the end of the time allow^ed, 
or at the end of ten days after the giving of 
notice that further time will not be allowed, 
the Camp remains delinquent, the Department 
Commander shall recommend to the Comman- 
der-in-Chief the suspension of said Camp, 
which Camp shall forthwith be suspended by 
the Commander-in-Chief, such suspension to 
continue until the rendering of the report or 
the payment of the amount in arrears. 

Second. In case of the delinquency of an 



22 CAMPS Part 2 

unattaclu'd Camp, tlie Commander-in-Chief 
shall take action as provided for a Department 
Commander in clause First of this section and 
failing to secure from the Camp the amount 
due or reports in arrears, shall forthwith sus- 
pend the Camp, said suspension to continue 
until the rendering of the report or the pay- 
ment of the amount in arrears. 

Section 20. Privileges Lost by Delinquent 
Camps, a. While delinquent, whether such 
Camp shall be suspended or not, such Camp 
shall not be entitled to representation in a con- 
vention of the National Encampment or of the 
Department Encampment of the Department, 
if any, in which Camp is located, nor to have its 
offtcers installed, nor permitted to participate 
in any public meeting or parade under the aus- 
pices of the organization. 

b- Unless excused by the Commander-in- 
Chief, a delinquent Camp must pay all arrear- 
ages at least thirty days before a convention of 
the National Encampment to be entitled to 
representation therein, and unless excused by 
the Department Commander of the Depart- 
ment in which it is located, it must pay all 
arrearages at least thirty days before a conven- 
tion of the Department Encampment to be en- 
titled to representation therein. 

c. Nothing in this section shall operate to 



Art. 4 ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHir 23 

deprive a Past Commander-in-Chief, a Depart- 
ment Officer, a Past Department Commander, 
or a Past Commander in good standing, who 
belongs to a Camp that has become delinquent, 
of his rights and privileges in the National En- 
campment or in the Department Encampment 
of the Department, if any, in which his Cam]) 
is located. 

Section 21. Suspended Camps: When to be 
Disbanded. Whenever a Camp shall remain in 
suspension for the period of one year under 
the provisions of this article, the Commander- 
in-Chief shall disband such Camp; provided, 
however, that an extension of time may be 
granted upon the request of the Department 
Commander of the Department, if any, in 
which the Camp is located. 



Article IV. 
ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP. 

Section 22. Charter Members, a. The 

officer instituting a new Camp shall make care- 
ful inquiry into the eligibility to become mem- 
bers of the Camp of the persons w^hose names 
appear upon the application for charter. He 
shall be furnished by the clerk of the Camp 
with the prescribed application for membership 
blanks filled out by the applicants, respec- 



24 (AMI'S Part 2 

tivcly, one for each person, setting forth all the 
facts required by the provisions of section 23 
hereof. He shall verify the statements made, 
by personal inspection of discharge papers, by 
making- inquiry of reliable persons, or by any 
other available means which shall satisfy him 
as to their truth and accuracy, and he shall 
also see that all the required information is 
given in detail. This duty shall be performed 
at or before the meeting called for the institu- 
tion of the Camp, but must be completed be- 
fore the institution is proceeded with- He shall 
indorse his findings upon each application for 
nu-mbershi]:), and onlv those applicants whom 
he certifies to be eligible to membership in the 
Camp shall be mustered in. 

b. l^pon taking the obligation and sub- 
scribing to the laws of the National organiza- 
tion and the by-laws of the Camp, applicants 
for a charter shall become active members: 
provided that any applicant duly certified by 
1I1C officer instituting the Camp who does not 
.-iDPc.'ir for muster-in at the formal institutic^n 
of the Cam]) may be obligated by the Comman- 
der at any meeting of the Camp held within 
-ixtN' days after the date of institution, and 
--liall then, ui)on subscribing- to the laws of the 
National organizalidii and the bv-1a\\s of the 
(anij), become an acti\c and charter member 
thereof: but an}- a])])]icant \\ho shall not be 



Art. 4 ADMISSION TO ^[E^niERs'tnp 25 

mustered in, either by the officer instituting" the 
Camp or by the Commander as above provid- 
ed, Mdthin the period of time specified, shall 
forfeit his right to membership and his fee for 
the same, and can thereafter be admitted only 
after the making of a new application for mem- 
bership and by election thereto by the Camp in 
the manner prescribed for recruits. 

Section 23. Application for Membership. 

Except as provided in section 22 hereof, every 
application for admission to membership shall 
be in writing and upon the prescribed applica- 
tion for membership blank, which shall be filled 
out so as to give all the information therein 
required. 

Section 24. Recommendation and Presenta- 
tion. The application for membership shall in 
each instance bear the recommendation, in 
writing indorsed thereon, of a member of the 
Camp to which it is addressed. Such member 
must be in good standing, and shall vouch for 
the applicant's eligibility and good character. 
Such application for membership shall be pre- 
sented and read at a regular or special meeting 
of the Camp, and shall then be referred, with- 
out debate, to an investigating committee of 
three, of which committee the comrade recom- 
mending the applicant shall not be a member, 
for investigation and report. 



26 CAMPS Part 2 

Section 25. Action of Investigating Com- 
mittee, a. The coniniitlce pr()\i(lc(l fur in 
section 24 hereof shall make a thorough inves- 
tigation as to the correctness of the facts set 
forth in the application for membership, with 
special reference to the statements made as to 
the military or naval service of the applicant, 
and shall also inquire into his general character 
and reputation. 

b. The report of the investigating com- 
mittee, embodying their findings as to the cor- 
rectness of the statements made by the appli- 
cant, and their recommendation as to whether 
he should be admitted to membership or re- 
jected, shall be indorsed on the application for 
membership and signed by all the members of 
the investigating committee, if possible; but 
the Camp may, by vote, accept a majority re- 
port. In the case of one member of the investi- 
gating committee dissenting from the report 
of the majority, he shall indorse a separate re- 
l)()rt upon the application for membership im- 
mediately following the majority report. 

c. In any case where an investigating 
committee recommends the rejection of an ap- 
]jlicant, the report shall set forth in detail the 
reasons for such recommendation. 

d. llie investigating committee shall 
make its report at the next meeting following 



Art. 4 ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP 2^ 

its appointment, unless further time is granted 
by vote of the Camp. 

e. If the appUcant is well known to the 
members of the Camp and is properly vouched 
for by a comrade who served with him, and the 
comrade so vouching is a member of the Camp 
to which the application for membership is ad- 
dressed, the investigating committee may 
make its report at the meeting at which it is 
appointed, and the Camp may then vote to 
muster in the applicant, provided the member- 
ship committee reports favorably. 

Section 26. Withdrawal of Application. An 

application for membership favorably reported 
upon by the Investigating committee may be 
withdrawn before it Is put to a ballot, at the 
request of the applicant or of the comrade re- 
commending him, and with the consent of the 
Camp as expressed by a majority vote ; but all 
applications for membership upon which the 
Investigating committee recommends rejection 
shall be put to a ballot. 

Section 27. Ballot on Application, a- 
After the reading of the report of the investi- 
gating committee an opportunity shall be given 
to the members of the Camp present to speak 
on the question of accepting or rejecting the 
applicant, and the Camp shall then proceed to 



2(S TAMPS Part 2 

\()tc on tlic application for membership. Avitli 
l)aper slips or ball ballots, in such manner that 
each member may vote secretly. 

b. Tf. on a count of the ballots deposited, 
it shall appear that not more than ten ballots 
ha AC been cast, and that two or more are for 
rejection, the applicant shall be declared re- 
iected : but if more than ten ballots are cast, 
then an additional unfavorable ballot for evevv 
additional ten or major fraction thereof shall 
be necessary to reject the application. Tf a 
less number of neg"ative ballots than hereinbe- 
fore provided are cast, or if all are in the af- 
firmative, the applicant shall be declared elect- 
ed, and no reconsideration of a favorable bal- 
lot shall be had after the Commander has an- 
nounced the result thereof: but whenever the 
ballot results in the rejection of the applicant, 
a second ballot shall immediately be taken, the 
result of A\-hich shall be fnird. 

Section 28. Rejection. A\'heii an a])iili(\'int 
has been rejected, his a])plicati()n fee shall be 
returned to him and he sinall not l)e eligible ro 
make application for membership in any Camp 
until the expiration of six months thereafter. 

Section 20. Notice of Election \n a]>pli- 
cant \vh<^ has been elected lo membership sli.'ill 
be termed a "recruit." luich recruit shall be 



Art; 4 AD^nssiox to :\iE>rp,ERSTTTr 29 

notified by the Adjutant to present himself for 
muster-in at the next meetinc^: of the Camp, or 
if he can be notified in season, he mav be mus- 
tered in at the same meeting at which he is 
elected to membership. 

Section 30. Effect of Failure to Appear for 
Muster-in. A recruit who fails to appear for 
muster-in within three months from the date of 
his election to membership shall forfeit his 
ri§:ht to be mustered in, together with what- 
ever fee he has paid, and if he subser[uentlv 
desires to be admitted to membership he shall 
be required to make a new application there- 
for, which shall take the same course as did his 
ori.^inal application for membership- 
Section 31. Applicatipn Fee to be Paid be- 
fore Mvister-in. No recruit shall be mustered 
in until he has paid the required application fee 
in full. 

Section 32. Muster-in. a. A recruit shall 
be mustered in according- to the forms and cere- 
n.KMiies prescribed in the Ritual. He shall then 
subscribe to the laws of the National org-aniza- 
tion and the by-laws of the Camp, in a book to 
be used for that purpose. A muster-in oath or 
obligation, to be taken or subscribed by each 
recruit, shall form part of any initiation cere- 
mony adopted for the use of Camps, and a re- 



^^o TAMTS Part 2 

emit who takes upon himself such obligation, 
or subscribes thereto in the manner hereinafter 
provided, shall be deemed to have been pro- 
perly mustered in although the full form of in- 
itiation ceremony may not have been used. 

b. When a recruit is unable to attend a 
meeting- of his Camp for the purpose of mus- 
ter-in. he may be mustered in by the Comman- 
der, the Senior Vice Commander or the Junior 
Vice Commander, at any convenient time and 
place, the dispensation of the Department Com- 
mander or of the Commander-in-Chief having 
been first obtained. In like manner dispensa- 
tion may be granted for the muster-in of a re- 
cruit by a Camp located in his vicinity, when, 
by reason of distance, he cannot attend his 
own Camp : or if in foreign parts, or beyond 
the reach of any CaYnp, by subscribing to a 
copy of the obligation and returning the same 
to his Camp. 

Section 33. Readmission after Honorable 
Discharge, a. Ati honorably discharged 
former member may be readmitted to active 
membership by making application for mem- 
bership in any Camp in the same manner as 
prescribed for an original applicant, submit- 
ting with his application for membership the 
certificate of discharge given him under sec- 
tion 51 hereof; and his application for member- 



Art. 4 ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP 3I 

ship shall take the same course as is prescribed 
in the case of an original application for mem- 
bership. 

b. If elected to membership, he shall sub- 
scribe to the laws of the National organiza- 
tion and the by-laws of the Camp, but shall 
not be again mustered in : and his election to 
membership and subscription to the law^s of 
the National organization and the by-laws of 
the Camp shall fully reinstate him to mem- 
bership in the organization and restore him to 
any past rank held by him at the time of his 
honorable discharge, as well as constitute him 
an active member of the Camp which has 
elected him to membership. 

Section 34. Life Membership. Nothing 
herein shall be construed to prevent a Camp 
from adopting a by-law providing for life mem- 
bership in the Camp, the fee for which, in lieu 
of annual dues, shall be as prescribed in sec- 
tion 103 hereof. 

Section 35. Admission to Honorary Mem- 
bership, a- Admission to honorary mem- 
bership in a Camp shall be by a tw^o-thirds 
vote of the members present and voting at a 
stated or special meeting, the approval of the 
Department Commander and of the Comman- 
der-in-Chief having been first obtained, except 



32 CAMPS Part 2 

where a ])ropositi()ii is made in favor of a vet- 
eran soldier, sailor or marine eligible to honor- 
ary membership. Notice of such meeting and 
proposed action shall be given at least seven 
days before the date thereof. 

b. A proposition for honorary member- 
ship shall be in the form of a resolution, set- 
ting forth the name of the person on whom it 
is desired to confer this distinction, and recit- 
ing the circumstances which are relied upon to 
establish his eligibility to honorary member- 
ship. Such resolution, signed by not 
less than five members of the Camp, shall be 
presented at a regular meeting of the Camp, 
and referred without debate to a future meet- 
ing. 

c. A person ha\ing been elected to hoii- 
orary membership shall be notified of his elec- 
tion by the Adjutant and requested to signify 
in writing his acceptance of the compliment. 

d. At the first meeting held subsequent to 
the receipt of said Avritten acceptance from the 
honorary member-elect, the communication 
signifying his accei)tance sliall ])e read, and tlu- 
Commander shall declare him to be an hon- 
orary member of the C'am]); and no person 
shall be deemed to be an honorary member of 
any Camp until his or her acceptance in writ- 
ing has been read and ])laced in the hies of the 
Camp. 



Art. 5 TRANSFER 33 

e. No tees or assessments shall ever be 
levied on or collected from an honorary mem- 
ber, and no comrade shall solicit pecuniary aid 
from any person whom he knows to be an hon- 
orary member of any Camp. 

Article V. 
TRANSFER. 

Section 36. How Granted, a. A comrade 
in good standing, who is not indebted to his 
Camp, may be transferred from the Camp of 
which he 'is a member to any other existing 
Camp by making application to the Comman- 
der, stating the name, number, Department, 
and location of the Camp to which he wishes t() 
be transferred, and thereupon a transfer of 
membership certificate, in the form prescribed 
by the authority of the National Encampment, 
shall be issued to him without charge, bearing 
the signatures of the Commander and Adju- 
tant, and under the seal of the Camp. In case 
such transfer of membership certificate should 
not be issued with reasonable promptness, the 
applicant shall make complaint in writing di- 
rectly to his Department Commander, or, if 
the Camp is unattached, to the Commander- 
in-Chief direct. 

b. The Commander of the Camp from 
which the transfer of membership is to be 



34 CAMPS Part 2 

made shall cause notice of the issue of such 
transfer of membership certificate to be sent 
without delay to the Camp to which the trans- 
fer of membership has been granted. 

c. The applicant shall, wnthin three months 
after the issuance of said transfer of member- 
ship certificate, deposit the same wuth the 
Camp named therein, and failings to do so, or 
upon the rejection of his application for trans- 
fer by the Camp named therein, the transfer of 
membership certificate shall become null and 
void, and the comrade concerned be deemed to 
have continued as and to be a member of the 
Camp by which it was granted. 

d. Upon the deposit of said transfer of 
membership certificate within the time speci- 
fied herein, the Camp with which it is deposited 
shall take action upon the same as in the case 
of an original application for membership ; and 
if the action thereupon is favorable the com- 
rade depositing said transfer of membership 
certificate shall become and be a member of 
said Camp. 

e. The Commander of the Camp with 
which the transfer of membership certificate 
is deposited shall, immediately after action 
thereon, notify the Camp by which such trans- 
fer of membership certificate was granted of its 
action in the matter; and if said transfer of 
membership certificate is not deposited as 



Art. 5 TRANSFER 35 

hereinbefore provided within the specified 
period of time, the Commander of the Camp 
named therein shall cause the Camp by which 
it was granted to be notified to that effect. 

f. Until the transfer of membership is act- 
ually effected, the comrade concerned shall re- 
tain all his rights and privileges as a member 
of the Camp by which the transfer of member- 
ship certificate has been granted, subject to all 
the duties and obligations of membership in 
such Camp. 

Section 37. Transfer to Become Charter 
Member of New Camp. A transfer of mem- 
bership certificate may be granted to a com- 
rade who wishes to become a charter member 
of a new Camp, and w^ho is in good standing 
in the Camp of which he is a member and not 
indebted to the same ; and the transfer of mem- 
bership shall be effected in the manner pre- 
scribed in section 36 hereof, except that the 
notice of the granting of the transfer of mem- 
bership certificate shall be transmitted from 
the Camp by which it is granted through De- 
partment Headquarters of the Department in 
which the new Camp is to be located ; or if the 
new Camp is not attached to a Department, 
then through National Headquarters. 

Section 38. Completion of Transfer. A 
Camp by which a transfer of membership cer- 



3'"> f'AMi'S Part 2 

titiralc has ix'cn ^raiitctl shall, upon the trans- 
fer of nienibershi]) 1)ein^ effected, transmit, 
\vith()ut delay, to the Camp to which the 
transfer of membership is made, a certified 
cop}' of the orig-inal application for membership 
of the comrade concerned, and all other in- 
formation which may be on record concernin^^ 
the military or naval service of the comrade 
and of his career as a comrade of the United 
Spanisi-i ^^^\R veterans. 

Section 39. Transfer Issued By a Delin- 
quent Camp. A transfer of membership cer- 
tificate issued by a delinquent Camp, whether 
such Camp shall be suspended or not, shall 
be of no effect unless approved and counter- 
signed by the Department Commander or. if 
the Camp be unattached, by the Commander- 
in-Chief. 

Article VI. 

VTSTTTXG CARDS. 

Section 40- Form. Cam]is shall issue to 
their inend)ers visiting- cards, which shall be in 
such form as shall l)e i)rescribed by authority 
of the National Encam])ment. 

Section 41. How Issued. Such cards shall 
be siii^ned by the Commander, attested by the 
Quartermaster, and under the seal of the Camp, 



Art. 7 FrRLOUGTis 37 

and sliall bear the autographic sij^naturc of the 
comrade receiving- the same. Idiey shall be 
issued onlv to comrades whose dues are paid 
in advance to a date specified therein. Such 
cards shall be valid only during the period of 
time mentioned therein. 

Section 42. Privileges Attaching to Visiting 
Cards. A visiting card shall entitle a comrade, 
after suitable examination, to admission to a 
Camp during the period of' time mentioned 
therein, and no comrade shall be entitled to 
visit a Camp unless he can present his visiting- 
card, or is vouched for by a comrade in good 
standing. 

Article VII. 
FURLOUGHS. 

Section 43. To Whom Granted. Any 

comrade, being in the military or naval ser- 
\ice of the Ignited States, who is ordered away 
from the \'icinity of his Camp to a station 
where there is no Camp within convenient 
])roximity. may be granted a furlough by the 
Commander, signed by him, attested by the 
Adjutant, and under the seal of the Camp, to 
cover a period not exceeding one year, during 
which time he shall be exempt from dues and 
assessments and shall be kept on the roll of his 



3^ CAMPS Part 2 

Camp as a member in good standing ; but no 
furlough shall be granted when charges exist 
against the comrade applying for the same, nor 
until he has paid all dues, assessments, and 
fees due and payable up to the time of the 
granting thereof; provided that if at any time 
within the term of the furlough the recipient 
leaves or is discharged from the service of the 
United States, or is changed to a station where 
there is a Camp within convenient proximity, 
the furlough shall at once expire. 

Section 44. Duration. A furloueh may be 
extended year by year, for like periods of time, 
so long as it shall appear that the conditions 
precedent to the granting of the original fur- 
lough, as prescribed in section 43 hereof, con- 
tinue to exist, wdth the provision that whenever 
such conditions cease to exist the furlough 
then in force shall at once expire. 

Section 45. Expiration- Upon the expira- 
tion of a furlough the comrade shall be held to 
all the requirements and responsibilities of a 
member not on furlough. 

Article VIII. 

DISCHARGE. 

Section 46. Definition. A discharge shall 
be a complete and final termination of the 



Art. 8 DISCHARGE 39 

membership in the organization of the comrade 
discharged, and shall be either honorable or 
dishonorable. 

Section 47. Honorable Discharge. An hon- 
orable discharge shall sever the connection of 
the recipient with the organization, leaving 
him eligible to readmission to membership, as 
provided in section 33 hereof. 

Section 48. Dishonorable Discharge. A 

dishonorable discharge shall be in eflfect the 
expulsion of the member so discharged, and 
shall be given only in pursuance of, and in ac- 
cordance with, the sentence of a court-martial. 
One who has been dishonorably discharged 
shall be forever ineligible to readmission into 
any Camp: provided, however, that the Na- 
tional Encampment, through the Committee on 
Appeals and Grievances, upon the petition of 
a person dishonorably discharged from the or- 
ganization, may, for good cause shown, revoke 
such dishonorable discharge, pardon the of- 
fense for which it was imposed, and render the 
petitioner eligible to readmission to member- 
ship, upon application and proceedings in the 
form prescribed in the case of members hon- 
orably discharged- 

Section 49. Property to be Returned. Any 

property belonging to the United Spanish 



40 CAMPS Part 2 

War \'eteraxs in the possession of a comrade 
at the time of his (Hscharf^c shall be returned 
to the organization. 

Section 50. Honorable Discharge: To Whom 
Granted Any comrade who is not indebted 
to his Camp for dues, assessments, or fees, and 
aj^ainst whom no charges for misconduct are 
pending, and who is otherwise in good stand- 
ing, shall, upon application to the Comman- 
der of his Camp, receive an honorable dis- 
charge from the r)rganization. 

Section 51. Certificate of Discharge. An 

honorablx' discliarged member shall receive a 
certificate of his discharge in the form ])re- 
scribed by authority of the Nation.al Encam]^- 
ment. Such discharge shall embody all the 
facts given on the original application for 
membership of its recipient, and shall set forth 
all statements of interest relative to his career 
as a member of the organization. Discharge 
certificates shall be signed by the Commander, 
attested by the Adjutant, and imder the seal 
of the Cam]\ 

Section 52. Publication of Dishonorable 
Discharge. r])on the recei])t of general orders 
from National Headquarters, publishing the 
dishonorable <lischarge of a member, the Com- 
mander of each Camp in the organization shall 



Art. 9 OFFICERS 41 

cause the same to be reatl in open C'ainp, and 
the name of the person so discharged to be 
entered in the black book of the Camp- 
Article IX. 
OFFICERS. 

Section 53. Eligibility. All members of a 
Camp who are in good standing shall be eligi- 
ble to any office in the Camp; provided that 
no comrade shall hold the of^ce of Surgeon 
unless he be a physician legally competent to 
practice medicine under the laws of the state, 
territory, or other political subdivision where- 
in he resides ; and provided further that no com- 
rade shall hold the office of Chaplain unless he 
is a professed member of some religious sect 
or denomination. In case that no comrade can 
be found in a Camp who possesses the forego- 
ing qualifications, the offices of Surgeon or of 
Chaplain, respectively, shall remain vacant 
until eligible candidates are available. 

^Section 54. Roster. The officers of each 
Camp shall be as follows: a Commander, a 
Senior Vice Commander, a Junior Vice Com- 
mander, an Adjutant, a Quartermaster, three 
Trustees, a Patriotic Instructor, a Chaplain, an 
Officer of the Day, and an Officer of the 
Guard. There mav also be an Historian, a 



42 CAMPS Part 2 

Surgeon, a Sergeant Major, a Quartermaster 
Sergeant, not more than three Color Sergeants, 
and a Chief Musician. 

Section 55. How Chosen. The Comman- 
der, Senior Vice Commander, Junior Vice 
Commander, Officer of the Day, Officer of the 
Guard, and the 'Trustees shall be elected by 
ballot as hereinafter provided. All other offi- 
cers mentioned in section 54 hereof shall be 
appointed by the Commander. 

Section 56. Term of Office, a. The elec- 
tive officers of a Camp shall be chosen annually 
at the first stated meeting in December, by the 
ballots of the members in good standing pres- 
ent and voting, to serve for one year from the 
date of their installation in office, or until their 
successors are duly chosen and installed, unless 
they sooner resign or are removed ; provided 
that upon the institution of a new Camp, the 
officers chosen upon institution shall hold their 
offices as follows : If the Camp is instituted 
after September ist in any calendar year, the 
terms of such officers shall expire upon the in- 
stallation of the officers elected in December 
of the year following; but if the Camp is in- 
stituted prior to September ist in any calen- 
dar year, the terms of such officers shall ex- 
pire upon the installation of the officers elected 



Art. 9 OFFICERS 43 

in the December next following- the institution 
of the Camp. 

b. The provisions of sub-section a of this 
section shall apply to the election of Trustees, 
except that the term of offtce shall be three 
years, and that upon the institution of a new 
Camp one Trustee shall be elected for a term 
of one year, one for a term of two years, and 
one for a term of three years. 

Section 57. Nomination. At the meeting 
next preceding an election of officers, a Camp 
may appoint a nominating committee to bring 
in a list of candidates for the offices to be filled 
at the next meeting, but the appointment of 
such a committee shall not limit the balloting 
to the names of those candidates recommend- 
ed by the committee, and all votes cast for any 
eligible person shall be received and counted. 

Section 58. Tellers. Before proceeding 
with the balloting, the Commander shall ap- 
point a committee of three tellers to conduct 
the election ; and whenever there is a contest 
over any office, the Commander shall give rep- 
resentation to the principal factions. The 
tellers shall preside at the election; receive, 
sort, and count the votes ; and declare the re- 
sult. 



44 cAMrs Part 2 

Section 59, Return of Tellers Final. In the 
case of a ballot for officers, a majority of all 
the votes cast shall be necessary for a choice ; 
and the return of the tellers thereon shall be 
i'lnal, when accepted by a majority vote of the 
Camp, unless the by-laws of the Camp other- 
wise provide. 

Section 60. Report of Election. The result 
of an election in a Camp shall be reported to 
Department Headquarters or, in the case of 
an unattached Camp, to National Headquar- 
ters. The report shall be in such form as shall 
be prescribed by authority of the National Kn- 
cam])ment. and shall be signed by the Comman- 
der, attested by the Adjutant, and under seal 
of the Cam]). It shall be for^sardcd to the 
pro|)cr head(|uartcrs without delay. 

Section 61. Installation. The Department 
Commander, or the Commander-in-Chief, as 
the case may be, shall detail an officer to visit 
the Camp at the first stated mcetinq" in Janu- 
ary and install the officers-elect, together with 
the appointive officers designated by the Com- 
mander-elect. For the purpose of installation, 
any officer of or above the grade of C')mm<in- 
der. or any past officer of or n.boxc the grade 
of Past Commander, may be detailed. The in- 
stalling ofncc-r shall visit tiie Cam]) as directed, 
install tlie officers, and forward a re])ort of the 



Art. 9 OFFICERS 45 

installation to the proper headquarters, which 
report shall be made upon a blank to be issued 
from National Headquarters, and shall include 
a full list of the officers installed, with their re- 
specti\e post offtce addresses. 

Section 62. Vacancies in Elective Offices: 
How Filled. Camps may fill vacancies in the 
elective offices at any stated meeting", notice of 
.such election having- been given at a previous 
meeting-, or sent to each member at least seven 
days before the date specified for such election. 
An election to fill a vacancy shall be conducted 
as prescribed for the annual election, and shall 
be reported to the proper headquarters. The 
Commander, or any officer or past officer of 
suitable rank detailed by him, shall forthwith 
install the officers so elected. 

Section 63. Removal of Appointive Offi- 
cers. The Commander may remove appoin- 
tive officers from office at pleasure. 

Section 64. Vacancies in Appointive Offi- 
ces: How Filled. A \acancy in an ap])ointive 
office may be filled at any time, and without 
previous notice, by the Commander; but such 
action shall be reported at once to the proper 
headquarters. The C(^mmander, or any officer 
or past officer of suitable rank detailed by him, 
shall forthwith install the officers so appointed. 



46 CAMPS Part 2 

Article X. 

DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 

Section 65. Commander. The duties of 
the Commander shall be as follows: 

a. He shall enforce within the Camp the 
laws of the National organization, the by-laws 
of the Department, and the enactments of the 
Department Encampment of the Department 
in which the Camp is located, the lawful orders 
of superior officers, and the by-laws and enact- 
ments of the Camp, and for this purpose he 
shall issue such orders as may be necessary. 

b. He shall preside at all meetings of the 
Camp. 

c. He shall appoint all Camp officers and 
all committees the selection of whom is not 
otherwise provided for. 

d. He shall serve as a member, e.v officio, on 
all committees of the Camp. 

e. He shall countersign all warrants a))- 
proved by him, drawn by the Adjutant, for the 
payment of money from the funds of the Cam]^. 
being accountable therefor. 

f. He shall countersign all requisitions for 
supplies approved by him. drawn by the Quar- 
termaster. 

g. He shall thoroughly inform himself as to 
the laws of the organization and particularly 
those relating to Camps and the duties of 



Art. 10 DITTIES OF OFFICERS 47 

comrades, and shall see that all the members 
ol the Camp are likew ise thoroughly informed. 

h. lie sliall see that all transfers of mem- 
bership certiiicates applied for by members of 
the Camp qualified to receive the same are 
promptly issued, and that all other duties de- 
\ olving- upon him with relation to a transfer of 
membership are given prompt attention. 

i. He shall see that all dues and all reports 
required to be sent to National Headquarters 
and Department Headquarters of the Depart- 
ment in which the Camp is located, or to desig- 
nated officers, by the provisions of the Rules 
and Regulations, the by-laws of the Depart- 
ment, and the lawful orders of superior officers, 
are forwarded without delay. 

j. He shall personally sign all communica- 
tions sent by him to National Headquarters 
and to Department Headquarters, and shall 
personally indorse all reports and communica- 
tions of subordinate officers and comrades of 
the Camp forwarded by him to National Head- 
quarters and Department Headquarters. 

k. He shall see that the Adjutant and the 
Quartermaster appointed by him, unless they 
are continued in office by his successor, turn 
over to their successors in office all property, 
and in the case of the Quartermaster all funds, 
of the Camp for which they may be account- 
able, and shall be held responsible for any de- 



48 CAMPS Part 2 

l;i} on the part ol' these officers in perforniin^^ 
these duties in accordance witli the pro\isions 
of the Rules and Regulations. 

1. He shall render to the Camp at the meet- 
ing at which the annual installation of officers 
takes place a complete report in writing of his 
administration, showing the condition of the 
Camp in all material respects, which report shall 
include a summary of the reports previously fur- 
nished to him by the Adjutant, the Quarter- 
master, and the Historian, and may contain 
such matters of interest and such recommenda- 
tions as' he deems to be of value to the Camp. 

m. He shall exercise general supervision 
over the Camp, and, in general, he shall per- 
form such duties and exercise such powers as 
are prescribed for him in specific cases by the 
provisions of the Rules and Regulations re- 
lating thereto, and by the by-laws of the De- 
partment in which the Camp is located, and by 
the by-laws of the Camp, and such as pertain 
to a chief executive officer of the Camp. 

Section 66. Vice Commanders. The Vice 
Commanders shall assist the Commander by 
counsel, or in such other manner as he may 
direct, and in case of his teniporarN- inabilitx' 
shall fill his office according to seniority 

Section 67. Chairman Pro Tempore. In the 

absence o\ the C\)mmander and both the Senior 



Art. 10 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 49 

,111(1 lunior Vice CoinniaiukTs I'loni a mccliuL;, 
the Camp shall elect a chairman pro tempore, 
preferably a Past Commander of the Camp. 

Section 68. Adjutant. The duties of tlie 
Adjutant shall be as follows: 

a. He shall keep a journal of the proceed- 
ines of all meetings of the Camp, attesting the 
same by his signature. 

b. He shall promulgate all orders and cir- 
culars of the Commander. 

c. He shall, under the direction of the Com- 
mander, attend to all official correspondence 
of the Camp. 

d. He shall submit all papers to the official 
scrutiny of the Commander, and carry out his 
directions respectinc: the same. 

e. He shall, under the direction of the Com- 
mander, prepare all reports and returns of the 
Camp required by the Rules and Regulations, 
the by-laws of the Department, or the orders 
of superior officers, except those which such 
Rules and Regulations, by-laws, or orders 
specifically prescribe shall be prepared by some 
other officer. 

f. He shall keep a roster of the Cam]:), with 
the names and addresses of all the officers for 
the time being, and with the names and ad- 
dresses of all members of the Camp. 

g. He shall keep a list of applicants re- 



50 CAMPS Part 2 

jectcd by the Camp, making immediate report 
ut such rejections in all cases through chan- 
nels to Department Headquarters and National 
Headquarters. 

h. He shall upon the death of a member of 
the Camp, promptly forward a report 
thereof to Department Headquarters for trans- 
mission to the Adjutant General or, if the 
Camp be unattached, shall forward such re- 
port direct to the Adjutant General. 

i. He shall, under the direction of the Com- 
mander, draw all warrants on the Quartermas- 
ter, directing payments from the funds of the 
Camp, pursuant to the authority of the by-laws 
or specific enactments of the Camp ; and he 
shall sign and present such warrants to the 
Commander for his approval and countersigna- 
ture. 

j. He shall keep the following books, re- 
cords and files : — 

First. The descriptive book prescribed by 
the authority of the National Encampment, in 
which shall be entered all the data for which 
provision is made, for each recruit admitted to 
membership, in so far as he is able to ascertain 
the facts. 

Second. A record book, in which shall be 
kept the journal of the meetings of the Camp, 
together with such entries as the Camp may 
direct. 



Art. 10 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 51 

Third. An order book, in which sliall be en- 
tered all orders and circulars issued by the 
Commander. 

Fourth. A letters-sent book, in which shall 
be entered copies of all the correspondence 
orig-inatin^ with the officers of the Camp upon 
offtcial subjects, or, in lieu of a letters-sent 
book, a file of carbon copies of letters sent. 

Fifth. A file of all letters received which re- 
main with the Camp. 

Sixth. A letters-received book, in which 
shall be entered memoranda of all official com- 
munications received by the officers of the 
Camp, the originals of which do not remain on 
file. 

Seventh. A black book, in which shall be re- 
corded the names of all applicants for admis- 
sion to membership who have been rejected by 
any Camp, so far as can be ascertained, and 
also the names of all persons who have been 
dishonorably discharged from membership. 

Eighth. A file of all orders and circulars re- 
ceived from National and Department Head- 
quarters. 

Ninth. A file of all applications for admission 
to membership received by the Camp. 

k. When no Surgeon is appointed, he shall 
perform the duties specifically prescribed for 
the Surgeon in these Rules and Regulations, 
and when no Historian is appointed he shall 



52 CAMPS Part 2 

perf(.)rni the duties prescribed for the His- 
torian. 

1. He sliall furnish to the Commander, just 
prior to the time for holding the meeting at 
which the annual installation of officers is to 
take place, a complete report in writing of the 
work of his office during his term of office, and 
giving all the data and statistics as to the 
membership of the Camp during his term of 
office. Said report, together with all books 
and files required to be kept by him, and all 
written reports of officers and committees 
which do not appear in full in the record book, 
shall be placed in the hands of the Commander 
on or before a day to be fixed by the Comman- 
der. He shall be accountable for all propertx' 
nf the Cam]) intrusted to him, and shall turn 
over all such property to his successor \vith()ut 
delay. 

m. He shall, in general, perform all clerical 
duties rendered necessary or desirable in the 
proper management of the business of the Camp 
and not specificall}' pertaining to another office- 
Section 69. Quartermaster. The duties of 
the Quartermaster shall be as follows: 

a. He shall collect all money due the Camp, 
giving his receipt therefor. 

b. He shall deposit all money belonging to 
the Camp, in the name of the Camp, with such 



Art. 10 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 53 

reputable banking institutions as tlie Camp 
.shall designate- 

c. He shall pay out money only in accord- 
aiue with the authority of the by-laws or spe- 
cific enactments of the Camp, upon warrants 
drawn by the Adjutant and countersigned by 
the Commander, ordering payment. 

d. He shall keep a casJi book, in which he 
shall promptly enter all receipts and disburse- 
ments of the money of the Camp, in such de- 
tail as to show the source of all receipts and 
the payee and object of each disbursement. In 
tlie event that he is the custodian of more than 
one fund, he shall keep a separate cash account 
of each of such funds, in the manner prescribed 
in this sub-section. ^I, 

e. He shall keep an account with each mem- 
ber of the Camp, charging such members, re- 
spectively, with all amounts due the Camp for 
fees, annual dues, supplies, and other consider- 
ations. 

f. He shall have custody of and sell to the 
members of the Camp all badges and other 
supplies which such members shall ha^'c the 
right to purchase and w^hich arc issued by au- 
thority of the National Encampment, charging 
therefor the prices fixed by authority of the 
National Encampment. 

g. He shall make requisitions for sup])lies 
upon the Department Quartermaster, or, in 



54 CAMPS Part 2 

proper cases, upon the Quartermaster General 
or Adjutant General, using the form blanks 
prescribed for that purpose, having first ob- 
tained the approval and countersignature of 
the Commander on such requisition, in each 
instance, before forwarding the same to the 
proper headquarters. 

h. He shall be the custodian of all property 
belonging to the Camp which is not intrusted 
to some other officer or officers by the provi- 
sions of the Rules and Regulations or by the 
by-law^s or enactments of the Camp, and shall 
hold and dispose of the same under the direc- 
tions of the Commander, or in the manner de- 
signated by the Rules and Regulations or by 
the by-laws or enactments of the Camp. 

i. He shall furnish from time to time, at the 
request of the Commander, a statement of all 
funds, supplies, and other property in his hands 
or under his control. 

j. He shall furnish to the Commander, just 
])rior to the time for holding the meeting at 
which the annual installation of officers is to 
take place, a complete report in writing of the 
work of his office during his term of office, 
which report shall show all receipts and dis- 
bursements by him of the moneys of the Camp, 
all amounts due to and from the Camp, and 
the extent, condition, and value of all property 
of the Camp, including supplies, which is in his 



Art. 10 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 55 

custody. Said report, together with his books 
of account, vouchers, and other papers rehiting 
thereto, shall be placed in the hands of the 
Commander on or before a day to be fixed by 
the Commander. 

k. He shall turn over to his successor in of- 
fice without delay all funds, supplies, and prop- 
erty belonging to the Camp, together with all 
books of account, vouchers, and other records 
and papers pertaining to his office. 

1. He shall not appropriate any of the money 
of the Camp to his owm use, as a loan or other- 
wise, and shall not lend the whole or any part 
thereof to any person. 

m. He shall perform all other clerical duties 
prescribed for his office by the Rules and Regu- 
lations, or rendered necessary and desirable in 
the proper management of the business of his 
office, and not specifically pertaining to an- 
other administrative office. 

n. He shall give bond for the faithful per- 
formance of his duties in a sum at least double 
the amount of the funds and value of supplies 
and property that are likely to be in his hands, 
the amount of such bond to be determined by 
the Camp and the surety to be approved by the 
Commander. 

Section 70. Trustees. The duties of the 
Trustees of the Camp shall be as follows : 



^6 (AMPS Part 2 

a. Tlic}- shall have general superxision over 
:uid management of the property of the Camp, 
subject to the direction of the Camp in regard 
thereto. 

b. The\' shall, \\hen so directed by a vote 
of the Camp, make investments of the relief 
fund or of any other special fund set aside 1)\- 
the Camp. 

c. They shall have full power to discharge 
mortgages in compliance with the proxisions 
of law of the state or territory in which the 
Camj) is located. " ■ 

d- They shall have the power to remit dues 
under the provisions of section io6 hereof. 

e. They shall render annually to the Camp, 
at the meeting at which the annual installation 
of officers takes place, a complete report in 
writing, showing the extent, condition, value, 
and location of all property of the Camp which 
is in their custody; and in the event that they 
are charged with the administration of the 
relief fund of the Camp, said report shall give 
in detail all receipts to and disbursements from 
said fund since the last preceding annual re- 
port, together with a statement of the manner 
in which the fund is invested: provided, how- 
ever, that they shall not disclose the names 
of the comrades or other persons to whom re- 
lief has been given unle'^s the Camp shall, by 
a majority vote, require them so t(^ do. The)' 



Art. 10 DUTIES OF OFFICERS ^"J 

shall also at the time above specified make a 
ful report in writing" as to all other matters 
committed to the Trustees by the Camp. 

Section 71.. Patriotic Instructor. The 

duties of the Patriotic Instructor shall be as 
follows : 

a. He shall, in connection with the Patriotic 
Instructors of other societies, or on his own 
initiative, endeavor to secure the introduction 
of patriotic instruction in the schools, and to 
encourag"e the proper observance of ]\Iemorial 
and Flacr Davs. and all other patriotic holidays. 
He shall endeaAor to inculcate, both by precept 
and example, principles of patriotisni and lov- 
altv in the 3muth of our land, and implant in 
their minds love of country, respect for the 
i1a,Q', and a determination to preserve and to 
transmit to posterity the priceless blessings of 
liberty. 

b. He shall at such times as may be speci- 
fied in orders, render to the Department Patri- 
otic Instructor, or, if the Camp is unattached, 
to the Xational Patriotic Instructor, a report of 
the Avork in patriotic instruction accomplished 
b}^ the Camp under his supervision and of 
memorial exercises, patriotic observances, and 
dedications hcdd bv the Camp since its last 
preceding report on these subjects, and shall 
add thereto such obserA'ations and recom- 



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mendations as in his judg"mcnt will be of value 
in the work of patriotic instruction. 

Section 72. Historian. The duties of the 
Historian shaH be as follows : — 

a. He shall be the custodian of all books, 
manuscripts, pictures, relics, and like posses- 
sions relatinjx to the War with Spain, the insur- 
rection in the Philippine Islands, and the China 
Relief Expedition of 1900. beloncrin^cr to the 
Camp. 

b. He shall keep an historical record of the 
notable occasions in which the Camp partici- 
pates, a])i:)endin,£;- thereto press clip])ings relat- 
\n^ to the same. 

c. He shall collect and preserve such 
records of indi\idual service of members of 
the Camp, and personal narratives contributed 
by them, as may be of historical value and in- 
terest. 

d. He shall contribute to the newspapers of 
the vicinity such items rclatinsix to the Camp 
and its doings as may be suitable for publica- 
tion and of a nature to arouse ])ublic interest in 
the Camp and in the objects of the organi- 
zation. 

e. He shall annually, at such time as may 
be specified in orders, render a full report to 
the Department Historian, or, if the Camp is 
unattached, to the National Historian, of all 



Art. 10 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 59 

notable events except memorial exercises, dedi- 
cations, and other events of kindred nature, in 
which the Camp has been interested since the 
preceding- annual report on this subject. Said 
report shall include a list of the deaths which 
have occurred in the Camp and records of 
special war service rendered by any members 
of the Camp not included in previous annual 
reports on these subjects. 

f. He shall furnish to the Commander, just 
prior to the time for holding" the meeting at 
which the annual installation of officers is to 
take place, a complete report in waiting, giving 
an account in detail of all notable events in 
ivhich the Camp has been interested during his 
term of office except memorial exercises, dedi- 
cations and other events of kindred nature, and 
containing a roll of the members of the Camp 
who have died since the last preceding annual 
report, and of other veterans, not members of 
the Camp, at whose funeral services the Camp 
has assisted, with a brief biographical account 
of each. Said report shall be placed in the 
hands of the Commander on or before a day to 
be fixed by the Commander. 

g. He shall perform such other duties as 
may be required of him by the Commander or 
by the Camp. 



f)0 i ; 'it CAMPS -li ,'1 Part 2 

Section 73. Surgeon. Tlu' SurL^con sli;ill. 
.'it sucli time as may be specified in orders, ren- 
der to the Department Suri:!;^eon, or if the Cam]j 
is unattached, to the Surgeon (jcneral* a re])ort 
of the relief work accomplished by the Camp 
since the last preceding report on that subject, 
statistics thereof to be obtained by him from 
the custodian of the relief fund of the Camp 
and shall include in the report such health 
statistics as ma>' have been required by the 
Surgeon General. He shall discharge such 
further duties in connection with his office as 
may be required of him. 

Section 74. Chaplain. The duties of the 
Chaplain shall be as follows: 

a. He shall conduct all de\'oti()nal exercises 
at meetings of the Camp. 

b. He shall perform sach other duties per- 
taining to his office as may be. from time to 
time, required of him. 

Section 75- Officer of the Day. The duties 
of the Officer of the Day shall \)c as follows: — 

a. He shall see tliat none but members of 
the Camp in good standing participate in the 
business of the Camp, and to that end shall 
inform himself as to the names and identity of 
the comrades who are mend)ers thereof in good 
standing. 

b. He shall, with the ai)])ro\al of the Com- 



Art. 10 DTTIES OF OFFICERS 6t 

niandcT, apj)oint as many guards piu) friiif^crr 
as he deems necessary to assist him in the per- 
formance of his duties. 

c. He shall perform such other duties as 
may be required of him by the Commander. 

Section 76. Officer of the Guard. It shall 
be the duty of the Officer of the Guard to take 
charo-e of the door at all meetin^^s of the Camp, 
and see that no one enters while the Camp is 
in session except such as are duly cjualified or 
have the permission o"f the Commander, and to 
this end he shall inform himself as to the names 
and identity of all comrades who are members 
in good standing of the Camp. \A^here the 
Officer of the Guard is absolutely certain of 
the identity and good standing of those seek- 
ing" admission to the meeting, he may permit 
them to enter on his own responsibility ; other- 
wise he shall announce to the Commander the 
name of each person who presents himself at 
the door, and carry out the orders of the Com- 
mander w^ith respect to such person. The Of- 
ficer of the Guard shall also perform such other 
duties as may be required of him by the 
Commander. 

Section 77. Sergeant Major and Quarter- 
master Sergeant. It shall be the duty of the 
.Serg^eant Major and the Quartermaster Ser- 
,G:eant to assist the Adjutant and Quarter- 



62 I AMP? Part 2 

master, respectively, in the discharge of their 
(hities. t 

Section 78. Color Sergeants. It shall be 
the duty of the Color Sergeants to take charge 
of the colors of the Camp, under the direction 
of the Commander, and to carry said colors in 
the meetings and ceremonies of the Camp and 
upon occasions of public parades. 

Section 79. Chief Musician. The Chief 
Musician shall blow the bugle calls prescribed 
by the regulations of the Ignited States Army 
upon such occasions and at such times as he 
may be directed by the commander. 

Article XI. 

DELEGATES. 

Section 80. To First Convention of Depart- 
ment Encampment. Upon receiving notice 
that a Department is to be organized, a Camp, 
if it be located in territory to be included with- 
in the proposed Department, shall proceed to 
elect the delegates and alternates to which 
the Camp is entitled under the provisions of 
section 136 hereof, at the first stated or special 
meeting held after receiving such notice, pro- 
vided that such election shall take place in due 
season to admit of the proper representation 



Art. II DELEGATES 63 

of the Camp nt the convention for the organi- 
zation of the Department. 

Section 8i. To National Encampment The 

Camp shall annually elect by ballot delegates 
and their alternates to represent said Camp in 
conventions of the National Encampment. 
Unless such election is held and the results 
thereof reported to National Headquarters at 
least thirty days prior to the stated convention 
of the National Encampment, the Camp shall 
forfeit its rip^ht to so elect. 

Section 82. Ratio for National Encamp- 
ment. The ratio of delegates and alternates 
from each duly constituted Camp, whether in 
the jurisdiction of a Department or unattached, 
shall be one delegate for every one hundred 
members, or major fractional part thereof, in 
each Camp ; provided, however, that ervery 
Camp, irrespective of the number of its mem- 
bers, shall be entitled to at least one delegate. 

Section 83. Basis of Representation in Na- 
tional Encampment. In estimating the num- 
ber of delegates to which a Camp is 
entitled, the ratio shall be fixed on the 
basis of the number of members in good stand- 
ing as exhibited by the report filed for the 
semi-annual term next but one prior to the 
semi-annual term in which is to be held the 



CAMPS Part 2 

ntion of the National Encampment at 
the Camp is to be represented; pro- 
\ lu^^v., however, that the Camp may elect ad- 
ditional delegates if found to be entitled to the 
same by the report for the semi-annual term 
next following that on which the number of 
delegates was based. 

Section 84. To Department Encampment. 

The Camp shall annually elect by ballot dele- 
gates and their alternates to represent it in the 
conventions of the Department Encampment, 
and such election shall take place in due sea- 
son to admit of the proper representation of the 
Camp at the stated convention of the Depart- 
ment Encampment. The number of said dele- 
gates and their alternates shall be in such ratio 
as shall have been determined by the by-laws 
of the Department; provided, however, that 
when not so determined, the ratio shall be as 
follows, viz., one delegate or alternate for 
every fifty members or major fractional part 
thereof in good standing in the Camp to be 
represented, except that each and every Camp 
shnll be entitled to nt least one delegate or 
alternntc. 

Section 85. Basis of Representation in De- 
partment Encampment. Tn estimating the 
number of delegates to which a Camp is en- 
titled, the r.'itin shall be fixed on the basis of 



Art. II DELEGATES 65 

the number of members in good standing as ex- 
hibited by the semi-annual report filed for the 
semi-annual term next prior to the term in 
which is to be held the stated convention of 
the Department Encampment at which the 
Camp is to be represented.. 

Section 86. Qualifications- Delegates and 
alternates elected by the Camp under the pro- 
visions of this article shall be members in good 
standing of the Camp. 

Section 87. Report of Election. A report 
of the election of delegates and their alternates 
to the National Encampment stating the names 
and addresses of all delegates and alternates 
elected shall be forwarded through channels 
without delay to National Headquarters on the 
blanks prescribed by authority of the National 
Encampment Like reports of the election of 
delegates and their alternates to the Depart- 
ment Encampment shall be forwarded without 
delay to Department Headquarters on such 
blanks or in such form as may be prescribed by 
authority of the Department Encampment. 

Section 88. How Chosen. All elections of 
delegates and their alternates shall be by bal- 
lot of the members in good standing present 
and voting at the meeting at which the elec- 



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tion is held, and a majority of the votes cast 
shall be necessary for a clioicc. 



Section 89. Vacancies : How Filled, a. Va- 
cancies in the office of delegate to the Depart- 
ment Encampment and to the National Encamp- 
ment shall be fdled during the remainder of 
the term in which they occur by the alternates, 
in the order in which they stand upon the list. 

b. In the absence of a sufficient number of 
alternates to fill vacancies in the offices of del- 
egate to the Department Encampment, the rep- 
resentatives of the Camp at a convention of 
the Department Encampment may elect acting 
delegates to serve in the place and stead of the 
regular delegates ; provided that such acting 
delegates shall be comrades in good standing 
in the Camp. 

c. Vacancies in the office of delegate to the 
National Encampment from a Camp within a 
Department shall be filled in accordance with 
the provisions of section 189 hereof. The rep 
resentatives of an unattached Camp in good 
standing present at a convention of the Na- 
tional Encampment ma}^ elect an acting dele- 
gate to serve in place and stead of an absent 
delegate or alternate elected by the Camp or to 
fill a vacancy caused by the failure of the Camp 
to elect; provided, however, that such acting 



Art. 12 MEETINGS 6. 

delegate shall be a comrade in good standing 
in the Camp. 

Section go. Rights of Alternates. An alter- 
nate, having- been admitted to a seat in a 
convention of the National Encampment or of 
a Department Encampment in the absence of a 
delegate, shall retain his seat until the final 
adjournment of that convention, even though 
his principal may present himself later in the 
session ; but this provision shall apply only to 
that specific convention, and the delegate thus 
excluded may take his seat at any other con- 
vention of the Encampment that may be held 
during his term as delegate- 
Section 91. Term of Office. The term of 
office of the Camp delegates and their alter- 
nates to the National Encampment and to the 
Department Encampment shall continue until 
their successors are duly chosen. 

Article XII. 

MEETINGS. 

Section 92. Stated Meetings. Camps shall 
prescribe in their by-lav^s the time of holding 
stated meetings ; but every Camp shall hold at 
least one meeting in each calendar month, ex- 
cept that, if it be deemed advisable, any or all 



68 CAMPS Part 2 

meetings in July and August, or in either of 
said months, may be omitted. 

Section 93. Special Meetings. Special 
meetings may be held at any reasonable time 
by order of the Commander, who shall require 
the Adjutant to give timely notice thereof to 
all members in good standing; and a Comman- 
der shall order special meetings of his Camp 
whenever seven members thereof make request 
therefor in writing, giving notice of the par- 
ticular business which they wish to bring be- 
fore the meeting. 

Section 94. Quorum. Five members in 
good standing shall constitute a quorum com- 
petent to transact business at any stated or 
special meeting of a Camp. No comrade not 
in good standing shall be eligible to vote in any 
meeting of a Camp. 

Section 95. Procedure at Meetings, a. The 

order of business at stated meetings of all 
Camps shall be as follows: 

1. Opening in due form. 

2. Roll call of officers. 

• 3. Reading of the records of last preceding 
stated or special meeting. 

4- Reading of orders, bills and communica- 
tions. 

5. Reading of applications for membership. 



Art. 12 MEETINGS 69 

6. Report of committees on applications for 
membership. 

7. Balloting on applications for member- 
ship. 

8. Muster-in of recruits. 

9. Reports of officers and committees. 

10. Unfinished business. 

11. New business. 

12. Remarks for the good of the organiza- 
tion. 

13. Report of the Quartermaster. 

14. Closing in due form. 

b. At the first stated meeting in December 
of each year the election of officers shall take 
place between the tenth and eleventh orders of 
business. The installation of the officers elect- 
ed at the first stated meeting in December shall 
take place between the tenth and eleventh or- 
ders of business at the first stated meeting in 
January next thereafter. 

c. Any of the foregoing orders of business 
may be suspended or transposed by vote of the 
Camp or by direction of the presiding officer if 
no member objects thereto, and in like man- 
ner the Camp may refer back to an order of 
business which has been closed and reopen the 
same- No motion to adjourn shall be enter- 
tained until all the orders of business have 
been taken up and closed. 

d. Action on orders, bills, and communica- 



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tions, read under the fourth order of business, 
shall be deferred and taken up under **new 
business" unless they can be disposed of with- 
out debate. 

e. The report of the Quartermaster shall 
consist of the reading of the names of members 
and others who have paid money to him on ac- 
count of the Camp since his last preceding re- 
port, together with the amounts so' paid, and 
the purpose, whether for fees, dues, supplies, 
fines, or otherwise. Such report shall be audi- 
bly read, so that the members may be enabled 
to detect errors if any exist, and it shall be en- 
tered on the records of the meeting by the Ad- 
jutant, and form a part of said records. The 
report shall conclude with a statement of the 
sum total received at the meeting and the sum 
total received since the last preceding report. 

f. The election and appointment of officers 
to fill vacancies, and their installation, shall 
take place under the head of "new business." 

g. At special meetings called for the trans- 
action of specific business, all orders of busi- 
ness which are superfluous shall be omitted, 
unless the call states that any business may be 
taken up which would be in order at a stated 
meeting. 

h. Camps shall strictly observe all forms 
and ceremonies prescribed by the Ritual and 
by the Book of Ceremonies in conducting 



Art. 13 PER CAPITA TAX AND REPORT /I 

meetings and parades to which the same apply. 

Section 96. Emergencies. In all cases 
where it is prescribed by these Rules and Reg- 
ulations, by enactment of the National En- 
campment, by the by-laws of a Department, or 
by enactment of a Department Encampment 
that certain business shall be transacted, or 
ceremony take place, at a specified meeting of 
a Camp,' and it becomes manifestly impossible 
to comply with such requirement as to time, or, 
through inadvertence, such requirement as to 
time shall not have been complied with, the 
Department Commander, or, in case of an un- 
attached Camp, the Commander-in-Chief, may, 
by special orders, authorize such business to 
be transacted or ceremony to take place, at a 
meeting other than that prescribed as afore- 
said ; and in like manner may authorize a Camp 
to suspend the holding of meetings, as required 
by section 92 hereof, whenever it shall appear 
that an emergency exists which renders im- 
practicable the holding of meetings at least 
once a month, during such emergency. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

PER CAPITA TAX AND SEMI-ANNUAL 
REPORT. 
Section 97. National Per Capita Tax. A 

per capita tax of twenty-five cents on each 



72 CAMPS Part 2 

member^ of the Camps, respectively, except 
members in suspension or on furlough, shall 
be paid each year by the several Camps of the 
organization to the Adjutant General for the 
use of the National organization ; provided, 
however, that no Camp shall be required to pay 
per capita tax for any portion of the term in 
which it shall be instituted. 

Section 98. Department Per Capita Tax. A 

per capita tax of not more than thirty-five 
cents on each member of the Camps, respec- 
tively, shall be paid each year by the several 
Camps of a Department for the use of the De- 
partment. In the absence of an enactment by 
the Department Encampment establishing a 
less amount as the amount thereof, said tax 
shall be the maximum amount authorized by 
this section. 

Section 99. Per Capita Tax : Basis of Compu- 
tation. The National and Department per capita 
tax shall be payable in two equal installments, 
one on the first day of January and one on the 
first day of July of each year, and shall be 
based upon the membership of the Camps re- 
spectively, as shown by semi-annual reports 
rendered on said days respectively, as of De- 
cember 31st and June 30th next preceding. In 
reckoning the amount due from a Camp for 
said tax all the members shall be counted who 



Art. 13 PER CAPITA TAX AND REPORT 73 

are on the roll of membership, as shown by said 
reports respectively, except members in sus- 
pension or on furlough. 

Section lOO. Per Capita Tax: How Paid. 

The National and Department per capita tax of 
Camps within the jurisdiction of a Department 
shall be forwarded promptly on the dates when 
payable, with the semi-annual report, to the 
Department Headquarters of the Department 
in which the Camp is located, and the National 
per capita tax shall be transmitted by the De- 
partment Adjutant to the Adjutant General. 
The per capita tax of all unattached Camps 
shall be forwarded with the semi-annual report 
direct to the Adjutant General. 



Section loi. Disputed Taxes and Fees. When- 
ever a dispute shall arise as to the amount due 
from a Camp for per capita tax or any fee or 
charge, the Camp shall forthwith pay such an 
amount as the Department Commander or, in 
case the Camp is unattached, the Commander- 
in-Chief, shall decide to be due under protest, 
and await such redress as may be given by the 
Department Council of Administration or, if 
an unattached Camp, by the National Com- 
mittee on Finance, for any injustice that has 
been done- 



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CAMPS Part 2 



Section 102. Semi-annual Report. A semi- 
annual report shall be rendered by each Camp 
of the organization as of June 30 and Decem- 
ber 31st, respectively, each year, and shall be 
forwarded with the per capita tax as pre- 
scribed in section 100 hereof. Said report 
shall be on the form blank and show such 
data as shall be prescribed by authority of the 
National Encampment. Camps exempted from 
the payment of per capita tax shall render the 
semi-annual report in such modified form as 
shall be specified by the Commander-in-Chief. 

Article XIV. 
REVENUE. 

Section 103. Sources. Camps shall specify 
in their by-laws the amount of fees and annual 
dues to be paid by members into the treasury 
of the Camp; provided that the amount fixed 
for each particular fee and such annual dues 
shall not be less per capita than the sums re- 
spectively named in the following- table : 

For admission to charter membership, two 
dollars. 

For admission to membership by applica- 
tion, including the application of an honorably 
discharged former member, tw^o dollars. 

For admission to membership by transfer, 
one dollar. 

For annual dues, two dollars- 



Art. 1 6 DELINQUENCY OF COMRADES 75 

For life membership in a Camp, in lieu of 
annual dues, not less than fifty dollars. i :■; 

Section 104. Annual Dues: When Payable. 

Annual dues shall be payable in four quarterly 
installments, in advance, on the ist of January, 
April, July, and October in each year. No com- 
rade shall be deemed in arrears for any quarter 
until the end thereof. 

Article XV. 
EXEMPTIONS. 
Section 105. When Granted, a. The per 

capita tax due National and Department 
Headquarters from a Camp on comrades who 
are members of National or State soldiers' 
homes or inmates of hospitals for insane or in- 
curable patients shall be remitted. 

b. Traveling Camps and other Camps com- 
posed entirely of men in the Army, Navy or 
Marine Corps of the United States shall be re- 
lieved from the payment of per capita tax and 
the rendering of reports during any serious 
National emergency recognized as such by the 
Commander-in-Chief- 

Article XVI. 
DELINQUENCY OF COMRADES: 
PENALTIES AND REINSTATEMENT. 
Section 106. Proceedings on Delinquency. 

Wliere a comrade shall become delinquent for 



y6 CAMPS Part 2 

nun-payment of dues as defined in section 11, 
article VI of the Constitution, action shall be 
taken as follows: 

First. Two weeks at least before the last 
meeting in December, March, June or Septem- 
ber in each year, which meetings, for conven- 
ience may be referred to as quarterly meetings, 
the Quartermaster shall submit to the Trus- 
tees of the Camp a list of all delinquent mem- 
bers and shall also notify each of such mem- 
bers as to his delinquency. 

Second. Any member thus notified who fails 
to pay the amount due the Camp at or before 
the next quarterly meeting thereafter shall be 
reported as delinquent; provided, however, 
that whenever, in the opinion of the trustees, 
a delinquent member is unable, by reason of 
sickness or other misfortune to pay his dues, 
said trustees may remit all amounts unpaid up 
to the date of the meeting or grant an exten- 
sion of time for the payment of such amounts 
for a period of not to exceed three months, in 
which event such member shall not be reported 
to the camp as delinquent. 

Third. Unless the Camp, by vote, shall 
grant an extension of time to a member re- 
ported delinquent, for the payment of the 
amount due, the Commander shall declare such 
member suspended. 

Fourth. The Quartermaster shall send a 



Art. 1 6 DELINQUENCY OF COMRADES 7/ 

written notice of suspension to each member so 
•suspended. 

Section 107. Effect of Suspension. The 

effect of suspension shall be the loss of all 
rights and privileges pertaining to member- 
ship in the organization during such suspen- 
sion. A comrade in suspension shall not be 
permitted to sit in his own Camp, or to visit 
any other Camp, or to take part in any public 
function with the same ; and no aid shall be 
given to a comrade in suspension from the 
funds of the Camp, Department, or National 
organization ; provided, however, that in the 
discretion of the Camp, Department, or Na- 
tional Headquarters, aid may be given to the 
family or dependents of a comrade who died 
while suspended from any fund allotted to such 
purposes, including the payment of the whole 
or any part of the burial expenses of such sus- 
pended member. 

Section 108. Office to be Vacated. The 

lawful suspension of a comrade holding office 
shall immediately render that office vacant. 

Section 109. Reinstatement, a. A com- 
rade who has been suspended by a Camp shall 
be reinstated upon pavment to the Camp of 
the amounts due from him at the time of his 
suspension, plus the dues which have accrued 



yS CAMPS Part 2 

aidaiust liim subsequently to his suspension, 
but not exceeding" in the a^i^rci^atc the sum of. 
three dollars. 

b. Reinstatement as provided in sub-sec- 
tion a of this section, or by the expiration of 
the term of suspension imposed by a court- 
martial, shall remove all disabilities incident 
to suspension and restore the comrade to all 
his rights and privileges, except that he shall 
not become entitled to resume an office held 
by him at the time of his suspension and ren- 
dered vacant thereby- 

c. Reinstatement as provided in sub-sec- 
tion a of this section must precede the grant- 
ing of a furlough, transfer of membership, or 
honorable discharge. 

Section no. Comrades in Suspension: 
When to be Dropped from Membership. A 

comrade who shall have been in suspension 
for the non-payment of dues for a period of 
one year from the date of such suspension shall 
be dropped from membership in the Camp. 
A comrade who has been dropped from 
membership as aforesaid shall not be eligible 
for membership in any Camp until he has 
first paid to the Camp by which he w^as 
dropped from membership the amount of his 
arrearages, but not exceeding three dollars; 



Art. 1 6 DELINQUENCY OF COMRADES 79 

provided that the Camp by which he was 
dropped from membership is still in existence ; 
upon which payment he shall be granted a 
certificate of honorable discharge from said 
Camp, and may then make application lor 
membership in the same or any other Camp in 
the manner prescribed for honorably dis- 
charged former members in section 33 hereof. 

Section iii. Readmission after Disband- 
ment or Revocation of Charter. A comrade 
who has been suspended, or dropped, for the 
non-payment of dues by a Camp which has 
been disbanded, or the charter of which has 
since been revoked, shall, upon the payment 
of two dollars to the Adjutant General be 
.eranted a certificate of honorable discharge 
from the organization, and may then make ap- 
plication for membership in the manner pre- 
scribed for honorably discharged former mem- 
bers. All amounts so paid to National Head- 
quarters shall be devoted to any purpose desig- 
nated by the Commander-in-Chief. 

Section 112. Fines. Where a fine has been 
Imposed by sentence of court martial, such 
fine shall be paid by the ofi^ender to the Quar- 
termaster of his Cam.p within thirty days after 
the publication of his sentence, and shall re- 
vert to the relief fund of such Camp if such fimd 
exists ; otherwise it shall be applied at the dis- 



8o CAMPS Part 2 

cretion of the Commander for the beneht of 
sick or needy comrades. If such fine remains 
unpaid at the end of thirty days, the offender 
shall be immediately suspended from mem- 
bership until payment thereof, and if such sus- 
pension continues for a period of sixty days 
without payment being made, the offender 
shall be dropped from membership, and shall 
thereafter be ineligible to re-admission until 
such fine, and all other arrearages not to ex- 
ceed three dollars, are paid to his Camp, when 
the provisions of section iii hereof shall ap- 
ply. If the Camp has ceased to exist, a per- 
son so dropped may remove the disqualifica- 
tion by paying such fine, plus the sum of two 
dollars, to the Adjutant General, upon which 
payment he shall be granted a certificate of 
honorable discharge. All amounts so paid to 
National Headquarters shall be devoted to any 
])urpose designated by the Commander-in- 
Chief. 

Article XVII. 

COUNTERSIGN. 

Section 113. Issued to Camps in Good 
Standing. A National countersign shall be 
promulgated to the organization by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief in accordance with the pro- 
visions of subsection i of section 230 hereof. 



Art. l8 RELIEF FUND 8l 

Upon the full payment of per capita taxes and 
the rendering of reports due, Camps shall be 
entitled to receive the countersign, which will 
be issued from National Headquarters in the 
manner prescribed in the Ritual. 



Article XVIII. 

RELIEF FUND. 

Section 114. How Established. Any Camp 
may establish a relief fund for the assistance of 
its needy members, their widows, orphans, or 
dependents, and, to maintain said fund, may 
set aside a portion of the annual dues to an 
amount not exceeding twenty-five cents per 
quarter for each member on the roll. All sums 
thus set apart, and all amounts especially 
raised for, and all donations to, this fund shall 
be held sacred for this pupose. 

Section 115. How administered. Regula- 
tions for the creation, maintenance, and dis- 
tribution of a relief fund shall be prescribed by 
the Camp in its by-laws, and, in the discretion 
of the Camp, the power and duty of granting 
assistance from such fund may be delegated 
to the Trustees, or to a committee on relief, 
for the purpose of preventing too great pub- 
licity in the matter of charities. 



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Article XIX. 

BY-LAWS. 

Section ii6. Requirements. Every Camp 
shall, before its institution, adopt a code of by- 
laws, based upon the form prescribed under 
Forms and Procedure in the Book of Cere- 
monies, which shall set forth the time for hold- 
ing stated meetings ; fix the amounts of fees 
and annual dues ; specify some recognized 
manual or system as the parliamentary author- 
ity of the Ca.mp in all cases not specifically 
provided for in the Rules and Regulations, and 
the by-laws of the Department; and generally 
provide for the government of the internal af- 
fairs of the Camp. All codes of by-laws, and 
all alterations thereof and amendments there- 
to, mu^t be consistent with the Rules and Reg- 
ulations and the by-laws of the Department, 
and before going into effect shall be submitted 
to Department Headquarters, or, if the Camp 
be unattached, to National Headquarters, for 
examination and approval. 

Section 117. How Altered and Amended. 
Camps shall provide in their by-laws for the 
alteration or amendment thereof; but shall re- 
quire such action to be by at least a two-thirds 
vote of the members in good standing present 
and voting at a stated or special meeting of 



Art. 20 DISBANDMENT 83 

the Camp, notice of the proposed amendment 
or alteration havin^^ been given at the next pre- 
ceding stated meeting. 

Article XX. 

DISBANDMENT. 

Section ii8. Limitation. No charter shall 
be surrendered by any Camp so long as fifteen 
members thereof demand its continuance, nor 
unless a proposition to surrender the charter 
shall have been made at a stated meeting of 
the Camp at least four weeks prior to the time 
of action, and due notice thereof given to every 
member of the Camp. If, upon the ballot being 
taken upon this question, it appears that less 
than fifteen members have voted to continue 
under the charter, the Commander and Adju- 
tant shall certify that fact to the Department 
Commander, or, if the Camp is unattached, 
then to the Commander-in-Chief. 

Section iig. Order for Disbandment. Upon 
receiving official notification of such action on 
the part of a Camp, the Department Comman- 
der or the Commander-in-Chief, as the case 
may be, shall, after investigation, issue an 
order for the disbandment of said Camp, and 
shall detail an ofiicer to carry out the order. 



84 CAMPS Part 2 

Section 120. Proceedings on Disbandment. 
a. The officer detailed to disband a Camp 
shall give an opportunity to any members 
thereof, who so desire, to transfer their mem- 
bership to other Camps, and shall thereafter is- 
sue honorable discharges to all members in 
good standing who do not desire to transfer 
their membership. 

b. The disbanding officer shall see that all 
debts of the Camp are paid, including any 
amounts that may be due to Department or 
National Headquarters, and that all records are 
complete and accounted for. 

c. He shall take possession of all records, 
papers, and personal property of the Camp, ex- 
cept money on hand, and turn the same over 
to the Department Quartermaster, or, if the 
Camp is unattached, then to the Quartermas- 
ter General. 

d. Any and all money remaining in the 
treasury of the Camp after the payment of all 
just debts and claims against the Camp shall 
be divided among the members thereof who 
were in good standing at the date of disband- 
ment, unless the Camp shall have voted to dis- 
pose of such balance in some other manner. 

Section 121. Final Disposition of Records 
and Property. All records, papers, and per- 
s(Mial property of a disbanded Camp, which 



Art. 20 DISBANDMENT 85 

shall have been received by the Quartermas- 
ter General or by a Department Quartermaster 
under the provisions of sub-section c, section 
120 hereof, shall be held in trust^ by such re- 
ceiving officer and his successors in office, and 
shall be issued to the same Camp in case it 
shall reorganize; provided, however, that such 
reorganization shall take place within one year 
after the date of disbandment. If, at the ex- 
piration of one year from the date of disband- 
ment as aforesaid, proceedings have not been 
commenced to reorganize such Camp, said 
trust shall cease, and the records, papers, and 
property shall become the absolute property 
of the National organization, and shall be dis- 
posed of in such manner as the National En- 
campment may direct. 

Section 122. Proceedings on Revocation of 
Charter. Whenever the Commander-in-Chief 
shall revoke the charter of a Camp, he shall de- 
tail an officer, or, if the Camp is within the jur- 
isdiction of a Department, shall direct the De- 
partment Commander to detail an officer, pre- 
ferably the District Inspector under whose 
jurisdiction the Camp has been working, to 
disband the Camp, and the officer so detailed 
shall proceed to wind up the affairs of the Camp 
in the manner prescribed in section 120 here- 
of. 



Part Three 
COUNCILS 



SUMMARY INDEX 

Page 
ART. I. COMPOSITION AND POWERS. 86 



Sec. 123. 


Municipal Councils: Organization. 


86 


Sec. 124. 


Vicinity Councils: Organization. 


87 


Sec. 125. 


Functions and Powers. 


87 


Sec. 126. 


Composition. 


89 


Sec. 127. 


Officers. 


89 


Sec. 128. 


By-Laws. 


89 


Sec. 129. 


Reports. 


91 


Sec. 130. 


Withdrawal of Camps From Vicinity 






Councils. 


91 


Sec. 131. 


Dissolution. 


92 



Article i- 

COMPOSITION AND POWERS. 

Section 123. Municipal Councils: Organiza- 
tion. In order that there may be a sub- divi- 
sion of the organization having authority to 
act collectively for the Camps and comrades of 
any city or other municipality in v^hich two 
or more Camps exist, a Municipal Council shall 

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Art. I COMPOSITION AND FOWERS 87 

be established and continue in existence so 
long as there are at least two Camps in such 
municipality. Upon institution, each new 
Camp in such municipality shall become a con- 
stituent Camp of such council. 

Section 124. Vicinity Councils: Organiza- 
tion. Where two or more Camps located in the 
same vicinity other than a municipality deem it 
advisable that there should be a sub-division 
of the organization having authority to act 
collectively for the Camps and comrades of 
such vicinity, a Vicinity Council may be es- 
tablished and continue in existence so long as 
at least two Camps thereof desire its continu- 
ance. Any other Camp in such vicinity may 
be admitted as a constituent Camp of such 
council by a two-thirds vote of the members 
thereof, due notice having been given to the 
members. Nothing herein shall be construed 
as precluding a Department from limiting the 
number of Camps or extent of territory to be 
included within a Vicinity Council. 

Section 125. Functions and Powers, a. Coun- 
cils shall represent the constituent Camps in 
all matters of common or local interest, such 
as making application for and receiving ap- 
propriations from public funds for memorial 
purposes. All dealings with a municipal or 



88 COUNCILS Part 3 

vicinity government, or an official thereof, in 
matters relating to the interests of the United 
Spanish War Veterans affecting the entire or- 
ganization in such municipality or vicinity as 
distinct from any single Camp or individual 
comrade, must be carried on through the Coun- 
cil, and constituent Camps shall not carry on 
such dealings except through the medium of 
such Council. 

b. Councils shall arrange for the observ- 
ance of Memorial Day and such other occa- 
sions as call for the participation of the con- 
stituent Camps ; apportion the care and decora- 
tion of the graves of deceased veterans in their 
municipalities or vicinity; have prudential 
charge of burial lots, monuments and other 
memorials dedicated by the public or contribu- 
ted to the veterans of the war with Spain and 
its incidental campaigns, so far as they are 
located in or pertain to the municipality or 
\icinity represented. 

c. Councils shall perform such other duties 
and exercise such general powers as may be 
specified in the by-laws thereof, or as may be 
expressly required or delegated by the con- 
stituent Camps; provided, however, that 
Councils shall not encroach upon the duties 
or powers prescribed for the National Encamp- 
ment or National Officers, nor, if within the 
territorial limits of a Department, upon the 



Art. I COMPOSITION AND POWERS 89 

duties or poAvers prescribed for the Depart- 
ment Encampment or Department Officers. 

Section 126. Composition. A council shall 
consist of members as follows : 

First. The Commander for the time being 
of each constituent Camp. 

Second. One or more delegates from each 
constituent Camp to be chosen by the Camps 
respectively as shall be prescribed in the by- 
laws of the Council. 

Third. Such other members as shall be pre- 
scribed in the by-laws of the Council. 

Fourth. In case of the absence of a com- 
mander from a meeting of the Council, such of- 
ficer or member of his Camp as he shall ap- 
point as his proxy for that meeting. 

Fifth. In the event the by-laws shall pro- 
vide that the Adjutant for the time being of 
each constituent Camp shall be a member of 
the council, said by-laws may also provide for 
a proxy similar to the proxy for a Commander. 

Section 127. Officers. The officers of a 
Council shall be a President, a Vice President, 
a Secretary and a Treasurer and such addi- 
tional officers as the by-laws of the Council may 
prescribe- Members only of a Council shall 
be eligible to hold office therein. 

Section 128. By-laws. a. Each Council 
shall adopt a code of by-laws, which shall be 



QO coi-NCTLS Part 3 

consistent with the Rules and Reguhitions and 
the by-laws of the Department, it any, in 
which such Council is located, and which, be- 
fore taking effect, shall be approved by the 
Department Commander, or, if the constitu- 
ent Camps are unattached, by the Commander- 
in-Chief, and shall be ratified by a majority 
vote of each constituent Camp. 

b. The by-law^s shall prescribe as follows : 

First The name by which said Council is 
to be known. The w^ord Municipal or Vicinity, 
as the case may be, need not be a part of such 
name. Neither need the word Council be a 
part of such name. 

Second. The officers and provisions as to the 
time and manner of election and the duties of 
such officers. It may be prescribed that the 
offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be held 
by the same member. 

Third. The standing and other committees 
and how and when they are to be chosen, and 
the duties of such committees. 

Fourth. The time and place of meeting, and 
the manner of calling meetings. 

Fifth. The duties to be performed and the 
powers to be permanently exercised by the 
Council, so far as they can be anticipated. 

Sixth. Any other regulations that seem de- 
sirable to promote the objects of the organiza- 
tion. 



Art. I COMPOSITION AND TOWERS 9 1 

c. The by-laws may be added to or amend- 
ed at any meeting of the Council, by a two- 
thirds vote of the members present and voting, 
provided that seasonable notice of such pro- 
posed amendment has been given to each mem- 
ber; but all such additions and amendments, 
before taking effect, shall be ratified by the 
constituent Camps and be approved by the De- 
partment Commander or Commander-in-Chief 
in the same manner as required at the time of 
the adoption of such by-laAvs. 

Section 129. Reports. Each Council may 
and if ordered, shall, through its officers, ren- 
der a w^ritten report of its doings in any year 
to the Department Commander of the Depart- 
ment in which located ; if unattached, to the 
Commander-in-Chief. A copy of such report 
shall be submitted to each constituent Camp. 
The copy of said report which is submitted to 
a Camp shall be countersigned by the members 
representing such Camp, who ma}^ add remarks 
and recommendations as may appear to such 
members to be of interest to the Camp. 

Section 130. — Withdrawal of Camps from 
Vicinity Councils- By a vote of its members 
present and voting at a meeting thereof, any 
constituent Camp may withdraw from a Vicin- 
ity Council. After notice of such action has 
been given to the Secretary of the Council, 



92 COUNCILS Part 3 

such Camp shall not be liable for any obliga- 
tion, financial or otherwise that may be subse- 
quently contracted by the council ; provided, 
however, that to the extent that the Council 
shall not have funds at the time sufficient 
therefor, a Camp so withdrawing shall be held 
liable for its proportion of all obligations law- 
fully contracted while such Camp was con- 
nected with the Council. 

Section 131. Dissolution. a. Vicinity 
Councils may be summarily dissolved by the 
Department Commander, or if the constituent 
Camps are unattached, by the Commander-in- 
Chief for acts contrary to the Rules and Regu- 
lations, the by-laws of the Department, or the 
lawful orders of superior officers, or for en- 
tering upon any undertaking which is mani- 
festly to the detriment of the organization. In 
the event of such summary dissolution, a Coun- 
cil shall have the right of appeal to the Com- 
mittee on Appeals and Grievances- 

b. ^^'hen all the constituent Camps but one 
wish to withdraw, a Vicinity Council shall be 
dissolved. 

c. Whenever a Vicinity Council is dis- 
solved, its personal property, excepting cash on 
hand, shall be sold, and the proceeds placed in 
its treasury. All financial obligations shall 
then be discharged from its funds, and the 



Art. I DISSOLUTION 93 

balance, if any, divided pro rata among the 
Camps represented at the time of dissolution. 
If there shall be a deficit, a pro rata assess- 
ment shall be levied on and paid by such 
Camps. All records and vouchers of the Coun- 
cil shall be turned over to Department Head- 
quarters of the Department in w^hich said 
Council was located, or, if the constituent 
Camps were unattached, the National Head- 
quarters. 



Part Four 

DEPARTMENTS AND 
PROVISIONAL DIVISIONS 

Sub-Part One 

DEPARTMENTS 

SUMMARY INDEX 

Page 

ART. I. FORMATION. 96 

Sec. 132. Institution. 96 

Sec. 133. Departments of Two or More States. 97 

Sec. 134. Negro Departments. 97 

Sec. 135. Name. 98 

Sec. 136. Procedure on Organization. 98 

Sec. 137. Subdivision of Departments. 100 

Sec. 138. Traveling Camps. 101 

ART. II. GOVERNMENT OF DEPARTMENTS. 102 

Sec. 139. Vested Powers. 102 

Sec. 140. Districts. 102 

Sec. 141. Headquarters. 102 

ART. III. DEPARTMENT ENCAMPMENTS. 103 

Sec. 142. Composition. 103 

Sec. 143. Stated Conventions. 104 

Sec. 144. Special Conventions. 105 

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Part 4 SUMMARY 95 

Page 

Conventions: How Called. 105 

Quorum. 106 

Order of Business. 106 
Voting at Conventions and Meetings. 106 

Representation by Alternates. 106 

DEPARTMENT COUNCIL OF 

ADMINISTRATION. 107 

Composition. 107 

Duties and Powers. 107 
Meetings of Department Council of 

Administration. 107 

Quorum. 108 

DEPARTMENT OFFICERS. 108 

Eligibility to Office. 108 

Roster. 109 

How Chosen. 109 

Officers Pro Tempore. HI 

Removal of Appointive Officers. HI 
Vacancies in Appointive Offices : How 

Filled. 112 
Vacancies in Elective Offices: How 

Filled. 112 

DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 112 

Department Commander. 112 

Vice Department Commanders. 117 

Chairman Pro Tempore. 117 

Department Chief of Staff. 117 

Department Adjutant. 117 

Department Quartermaster. 124 

Department Inspector. 128 

Department Judge Advocate. 130 

Department Surgeon. 132 

Department Chaplain. 133 

Department Patriotic Instructor. 133 

Department Marshal. 134 



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146. 


Sec. 


147. 


Sec. 


148. 


Sec. 


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Sec. 


151. 


Sec. 


152. 


Sec. 


153. 


ART. 


V. I 


Sec. 


154. 


Sec. 


155. 


Sec. 


156. 


Sec. 


157. 


Sec. 


158. 


Sec. 


159. 


Sec. 


160. 


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VI. 


Sec. 


161. 


Sec. 


162. 


Sec. 


163. 


Sec. 


164. 


Sec. 


165. 


Sec. 


166. 


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Paftc 
Sec. 173. Department Historian. 135 

Sec. 174. Assistant Department Adjutants. 136 

Sec. 175. Assistant Department Quartermasters. 137 
Sec. 176. District Inspectors. 137 

Sec. 177. Other Officers. 138 

ART. VII. COMMITTEES. 138 
Sec. 178. Designation. 138 
Sec. 179. Committee on Credentials. 138 
Sec. 180. Committee on Auditing. 139 
Sec. 181. Committee on Legislation. 139 
Sec. 182. Committee on Enactments and Re- 
solutions. 140 
Sec. 183. Pro Tempore Members of Committees. 141 
Sec. 184. Standing Committees. 141 
Sec. 185. Special Committees. 141 

ART. VIII. PER CAPITA TAX AND FEES. 141 

Sec. 186. Department Per Capita Tax. 141 

Sec. 187. Registration Fee. 142 

ART. IX. DELEGATES TO NATIONAL EN- 
CAMPMENT. 142 
Sec. 188. Delegates-at-Large. 142 
Sec. 189. Vacancies: How Filled. 143 
Sec. 190. Eligibility. 144 

ART. X. BY-LAWS. 144 

Sec. 191. Department By-Laws. 144 

Article I. 
FORMATION. 
Section 132. Institution. All the Camps 
located in any state, territory, district, or pos- 
session, except traveling Camps, may be or- 



Art. I FORMATION 97 

j^anized as a Department by the Commander- 
in-Chief; proAdded, however, that no Depart- 
ment shall consist of less than four Camps- 

Section 133. Departments of Two or More 
States. All the Camps, being not less than 
four in number, located in two or more adja- 
cent states, territories, districts, or possessions, 
except traveling Camps, may be organized as a 
Department by the Commander-in-Chief, when- 
ever it shall appear that such action will ad- 
vance the interests of the organization there- 
in. Camps located in foreign territory may 
likewise be formed into Departments or af¥ili- 
ated with Departments adjacent to said terri- 
tory by the Commander-in-Chief. 

Section 134. Negro Departments. Where 
there are four or more Camps, all the members 
of which Camps, respectively, are negroes, lo- 
cated in a state or group of states or other sub- 
divisions of the United States or any foreign 
territory, as provided in sections 132 and 133 
hereof, all of such negro Camps located in any 
state, or in two or more adjacent states, or 
other subdivisions of the United States, may 
be organized as a separate Department by the 
Commander-in-Chief whenever it shall appear 
that such action will advance the interests of 
the organization therein ; and all negro Camps, 
except traveling Camps, thereafter instituted 



98 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

within the territorial limits of such Depart- 
ments shall be attached thereto. 

Section 135. Name. The name or designa- 
tion of the Departments shall be selected by 
the Commander-in-Chief, and shall be expres- 
sive of the territorial limits or location there- 
of, viz., "Department of . . . . ," inserting some 
geographical appellation which will indicate 
the state, territory, district, or possession, or 
the section of the United States within its 
jurisdiction. Negro Departments shall be 
designated by appropriate geographical appel- 
lations not already applied to any white de- 
partment- 
Section 136. Procedure on Organization, a. 
When the Commander-in-Chief shall have de- 
cided upon the organization of a Department, 
he shall issue a commission addressed to a 
National officer, preferably one Avho is a mem- 
ber of a Camp to be included in the proposed 
Department, directing him to assemble a con- 
vention of the Commanders, Senior and Junior 
Vice Commanders, and delegates from all the 
Camps within the territorial limits of the pro- 
posed Department. Each Camp shall elect its 
delegates by ballot, together with an equal 
number of alternates, and shall be entitled to 
one delegate for every fifty members in good 
standing in the Camp, or major fractional part 



Art. I - FORMATION 99 

tnereof; provided, however, that each and 
every Camp shall be entitled to at least one 
delegate. 

b. The convention, having been called to 
order, and the commission read by the officer 
named therein, w^ho shall act as temporary pre- 
siding officer, shall at once proceed to elect of- 
ficers, who shall be immediately installed by 
the temporary presiding officer. A code of by- 
laws shall then be adopted, and such other 
business transacted as is necessary and proper 
to provide for the carrying on of the affairs of 
the Department. The Department Commander 
should, before adjournment, announce the 
names pf those comrades selected by him to fill 
the appointive offices. 

c. The officer to whom the commission was 
issued shall return it with the proceedings of 
the convention certified thereon and attested 
by the Department Commander and the De- 
partment Adjutant, together with a copy of the 
by-laws adopted. The proceedings appearing 
to have been regular and the by-laws 
to be consistent with the Rules and 
Regulations, the Commander-in-Chief shall is- 
sue special orders, officially constituting the 
Department ; and all Camps, except traveling 
Camps, then and thereafter located within the 
territorial limits specified in said charter shall 
then and thereafter be and remain under the 



TOO DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

jurisdiction of the Department so long- as said 
charter shall remain unrevoked, except as pro- 
vided in section 134 hereof. 

Section 137. Subdivision of Departments, a. 
Whenever the Camps in a Department, the 
jurisdiction of which extends over a large tract 
of country, become so numerous and are so 
widely dispersed that it is expedient to form 
the same into two or more smaller Depart- 
ments, each embracing- one or more states or 
other subdivisions of the United States and its 
possessions, the Commander-in-Chief may pro- 
ceed to issue commissions for forming the 
same, in the same manner as is herein pre- 
scribed for forming a new Department. In 
such case, the charter and records of the di- 
vided Department shall be turned over to Na- 
tional Headquarters, and new charters issued 
to each new Department created therefrom. 
All funds and property which may be in the 
possession of the divided Department shall be 
distributed pro rata among- the new Depart- 
ments. 

b. Departments comprising otily one state 
or other subdivision of the United States and 
its possessions shall not be subdivided except 
by special enactment of the National Encamp- 
ment. In case of such enactment, the Com- 
mander-in-Chief shall proceed to form the au- 



Art. I FORMATION lot 

thorized Departments in accordance with the 
provisions of subsection a of this section. 

Section 138. Traveling Camps. Whenever 
a traveUng Camp is Hkely to be located for a 
considerable period of time at a station which 
is within the territorial limits of a Department, 
it may, upon petition approved by the Depart- 
ment Commander, be attached by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief to such Department during its 
sojourn within the territorial limits thereof, 
and while so attached it shall be entitled to all 
the privileges, and subject to all the obligations 
of Camps permanently included in such De- 
partment; provided, however, that it shall ap- 
pear from such petition that not less than two- 
thirds of the members of such Camp are in 
favor of becoming attached to said Depart- 
ment ; provided, further, that there is reason- 
able ground for believing that said Camp will 
remain within the territorial limits of said De- 
partment for at least two years ; and provided, 
further, that upon removing from said limits 
such Camp shall thereby at once become de- 
tached from said Department and resume its 
status as a traveling Camp unless it becomes 
attached, in like manner, to another Depart- 
ment. 



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Article II. 
GOVERXMEXT OE DEPARTMENTS. 

Section 139. Vested Powers Subject to 
the governing powers of the X^ational organi- 
zation, the government of each Department, 
respectively, is vested in a supreme legislative 
body to be styled the Department Encamp- 
ment, and a chief executive to be styled the 
Department Commander. 

Section 140. Districts. For the better man- 
agement of the affairs of a Department, the 
territory lying within its jurisdiction shall be 
divided into Districts, each to be under the 
supervision of a District Inspector. The num- 
ber and extent of such Districts shall be estab- 
lished by the Department Commander, with 
the advice and consent of the Department 
Council of Administration, and may be altered 
from time to time. 

Section 141. Headquarters. The office of 
the chief executive of a Department shall be 
styled "Department Headquarters." and shall 
be located at the place of residence of the De- 
partment Commander, or as otherwise desig- 
nated bv him in orders. 



Art. 3 DEPARTMENT ENCAMPMENT.^ IO3 

Article III. 
DEPARTMENT EXCAMPMEXT5. 

Section 142. Composition- A Department 
Encampment shall consist of members as fol- 
lows : 

First. The Department officers for the time 
being, both elective and appointive, except 
Department Aides-de-Camp ; provided, how- 
ever, that each Department may specif>' in its 
by-laws that District Inspectors as such shall 
not be members of the Department Encamp- 
ment- 

Second. The Commander-in-Chief and all 
Past Commanders-in-Chief, provided that they 
are members in good standing of Camps of the 
Department- 

Third. All Past Department Commanders 
of any Department who are members in good 
standincr of Camps of the Department, 

Fourth. The Commanders. Senior Vice 
Commanders, and Junior Vice Commanders, 
for the time being, of all Camps of the De- 
partment, provided they are in good standing 
in their respective Camps, which must likewise 
be in good standing. 

Fifth. All Past Commanders of any Camp 
who are members in good standing of Camps 
of the Department. 



I04 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

Sixth. Delegates, or their alternates, in 
good standing, from the several Camps of the 
Department in good standing, chosen as pre- 
scribed in section 84 hereof. The stated ratio 
of such delegates and alternates and the 
method by which a Department Encampment 
may change such ratio are also prescribed in 
said section. 

Section 143. Stated Conventions. A stated 
convention of each Department Encampment 
shall be held annually betv^^een the first day of 
February and the first day of August, at such 
time as may be fixed by the by-laws of the 
Department and at such place as may have 
been designated by the Department Encamp- 
ment at its next preceding stated convention : 
provided, however, that if the by-laws of the 
Department do not prescribe the time for hold- 
ing the stated convention, the Department 
Commander, with the advice and consent of the 
Department Council of Administration, shall 
fix the date of an}^ stated convention that mav 
be due to be holdcn in his term of office ; and 
provided, further, that if the Department En- 
campment shall, in any vear, fail to appoint the 
place of its next stated convention, the De- 
partment Commander, with the advice and con- 
sent of the Department Council of Administra- 
tion shall select the same. Should it become 



Art. 3 DEPARTMENT ENCAMPMENTS IO5 

expedient to change the time of a stated con- 
vention to a date different from that prescribed 
in the by-laws, or to change the place from 
that designated by the Department Encamp- 
ment, the Department Commander with the 
consent of a majority of the Department Coun- 
cil of Administration shall appoint the time, 
or, with the consent of the Department Coun- 
cil of Administration expressed in a two- 
thirds vote, shall change the place for such 
convention. 



Section 144. Special Conventions. The De- 
partment Commander, with the advice and 
consent of the Department Council of Ad- 
ministration, may convene the Department 
Encampment in special convention for the 
transaction of urgent business, at such time 
and place as may be determined by the De- 
partment Council of Administration ; but no 
business shall be transacted at a special con- 
vention of a Department Encampment except 
that specified in the order therefor. 

Section 145. Conventions: How Called. 

An official call shall be issued by the Depart- 
ment Commander at least thirty days prior to 
the date of any convention of a Department 
Encampment. 



T06 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

Section 146. Quorum. At a convention of 
a Department Encampment a majority of the 
members shall constitute a quorum. 

Section 147. Order of Business. The order 
of business at a stated convention of a Depart- 
ment Encampment shall be as nearly as prac- 
ticable that hereinafter prescribed for the 
National Encampment. Whenever conditions 
permit, an informal session similar to that 
authorized for the National Encampment in 
section 204 hereof, and for like purposes, may 
be held by the Department Encampment. 

Section 148. Voting at Conventions and 
Meetings. Each member present at a conven- 
tion of a Department Encampment shall be 
entitled to one vote, and no proxies or pairs 
shall be counted. Whenever a comrade holds 
more than one office, each of which carries with 
it a seat in the Department Encampment, he 
shall sit and vote for the highest office held by 
him, the others remaining unrepresented. This 
rule shall also apply to meetings of the Depart- 
ment Council of Administration and to votes 
thereof taken by mail. 

Section 149. Representation by Alternates. 

Delegates alone may be represented by alter- 
nates at a stated or special convention of a 
Department Encampment from which thev 



Art. 4 COUNCIL OF administration 107 

absent themselves. In case of the absence of 
members of the Department Encampment who 
are entitled to seats by virtue of present or past 
office, their seats shall be vacant. 

Article IV. 

DEPARTMENT COUNCIL OF ADMINIS- 
TRATION. 
Section 150- Composition. The elective of- 
ficers of a Department and such other officers, 
and past officers, as may be designated in the 
by-law^s of the Department shall constitute its 
Department Council of Administration. 

Section 151. Duties and Powers. A De- 
partment Council of Administration shall per- 
form and exercise such duties and powders as 
may be prescribed in the Rules and Regula- 
tions and the by-laws of the Department, and 
such additional duties and powers as shall have 
been expressly imposed upon and delegated to 
it by the Department Encampment. 

Section 152. Meetings of Department Council 
of Administration. Meetings of a Department 
Council of Administration shall be held at such 
times and places as the Department Comman- 
der may direct. Whenever the actual as- 
sembling of the members of a Department 
Council of Administration will, in the judg- 



I08 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

ment of the Department Commander, involve 
undue expense, the votes and opinions of the 
members shall be obtained by mail, the ques- 
tion on which action is to be taken having been 
seasonably submitted to each member by 
letter or circular setting" forth the proposition 
in sufficient detail to define the issue involved. 

Section 153. Quorum. At a meeting of a 
Department Council of Administration a ma- 
jority of the members shall constitute a 
quorum. 

Article V. 

'^^ DEPARTMENT OFFICERS. 

Section 154. Eligibility to Office. All com- 
rades of the United Spanish War Veterans 
in good standing in a Camp of the Department 
shall be eligible to any office in their Depart- 
^^: provided, however, that no comrade 
' ' the office of Department Judge Ad- 
less he be a member of the bar of 
Qcluded within the Department ; pro- 
ther, that no comrade shall hold the 
department Surgeon unless he be a 
legally competent to practise medi- 
the laws of territory included within 
tment ; and provided, further, that no 
>hall hold the office of Department 



Art. 5 OFFICERS 109 

Chaplain unless he be a professed member of 
some religious sect or denomination ; and in 
case no comrades can be found in the Depart- 
ment who possess the foregoing qualifications, 
respectively, for the offices of Department 
Judge Advocate, Department Surgeon, or De- 
partment Chaplain, such office shall remain 
vacant until some eligible candidate is avail- 
able. No comrade shall be selected for an 
oflBce v^ho has not given his consent thereto. 

Section 155. Roster. The officers of each 
Department shall be as follows, viz., a Depart- 
ment Commander, a Senior Vice Department 
Commander, a Junior Vice Department Com- 
mander, a Department Chief of Staf¥, a Depart- 
ment Adjutant, a Department Quartermaster, 
a Department Inspector, a Department Judge 
Advocate, a Department Surgeon, a Depart- 
ment Chaplain, a Department Patriotic Instruc- 
tor, a Department Marshal, a Department 
Historian, as many District Inspectors as there 
are Districts in the Department, and as many 
Department Aides-de-Camp as may be neces- 
sary, but not more than one to each Camp. 
There may also be no more than two Assistant 
Department Adjutants and no more than two 
Assi?;tant Department Quartermasters. 

Section 156. How Chosen. The Depart- 
ment Commander, the Senior Vice Department 



no DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

Commander and the Junior Vice Department 
Commander shall be elected by the Depart- 
ment Encampment; the Department Chief of 
Staff, the Department Adjutant, the Depart- 
ment Quartermaster, the District Inspectors 
and the Department Aides-de-Camp shall be 
appointed by the Department Commander; the 
Assistant Department Adjutants and Assistant 
Department Quartermasters shall be appointed 
by the Department Commander, upon the 
recommendation of their respective chiefs 
when practicable. All other Department offi- 
cers shall be elected by the Department En- 
campment, or appointed by the Department 
Commander, as the by-laws of the Department 
shall provide. Elective officers shall be chosen 
by ballot, by the Department Encampment, at 
its stated convention, by a majority vote of the 
members present and voting, and shall be im- 
mediately installed in office to serve for the 
term of one year, or until their successors are 
dul)^ elected and installed- Appointive officers 
need not be formally installed in office, and 
when duly qualified shall serve until their re- 
spective successors are appointed and qualified ; 
provided, however, that Department Aides-de- 
Camp shall serve during- the term o^ the 
Department Commander appointing them, 
leaving office with him. unless sooner removed. 
In case an officer elected is not present to be 



Art. 5 OFFICERS III 

formally installed at the convention of the 
Department Encampment at which he is 
elected to office, the Department Commander 
shall obligate him to fulfil and perform the 
duties of his office at the first convenient op- 
portunity, or shall detail some other Depart- 
ment officer to do so, and this shall as fully 
qualify him to assume and discharge the duties 
of his office as would a formal installation. 

Section 157. Officers Pro Tempore. The 

Department Commander may, in the tem- 
porary absence or inability of a Department 
officer, elective or appointive, or until a va- 
cancy in an elective office can be filled, or 
w^henever the interests of the Department 
require, detail any comrade as an acting officer. 
Such acting officer may sit in conventions of 
the Department Encampment or meetings of 
the Department Council of Administration for 
the purpose of discharging the duties of the 
office, but he shall not, by virtue of such pro 
tempore office, be entitled to speak or vote un- 
less he holds membership in such body as the 
regular incumbent of some other office or as a 
delegate. The official and lawful acts of an 
acting officer shall be of full force and eft'ect. 

Section 158. Removal of Appointive Officers. 

The Department Commander may remove ap- 
pointive officers from office at pleasure, and he 



112 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

shall, at the request of the head of an adminis- 
trative bureau, upon representation of neglect 
of duty, remove an assistant of the officer pre- 
ferring the request. 

Section 159. Vacancies in Appointive Of- 
fices: How Filled. Vacancies in appointive 
offices shall be hlled at any time in like manner 
as is provided for original appointment. 

Section 160. Vacancies in Elective Offices: 
Hov^r Filled, a. Should the office of Depart- 
ment Commander become vacant, the Senior 
Vice Department Commander shall succeed to 
the same for the balance of the unexpired term, 
and the Junior Vice Department Commander 
shall succeed him in his office for the balance of 
the unexpired term. 

b. Vacancies in elective offices, other than 
that of Department Commander, shall be filled 
by a majority vote of the Department Council 
of Administration, notice of the election having 
been given seven days at least before it is held. 

Article VI. 
DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 

Section 161. Department Commander. The 

duties of the Department Commander shall be 
as follows : 

a. As chief executive of the Department he 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS II3 

shall enforce, within the Department, the laws 
of the National organization, the lawful orders 
of superior officers and the by-laws and enact- 
ments of the Department Encampment, and for 
this purpose he shall issue such orders as may 
be necessary. 

b. He shall preside at all conventions of the 
Department Encampment and at all meetings 
of the Department Council of Administration. 

c. He shall appoint all Department officers 
and committees, and detail all Department 
courts, commissions, and boards the selection 
of which is not otherwise provided for. 

d. He shall serve as a member, ex officio, 
on all committees of the Department and of 
the Department Council of Administration. 

e. He shall make rulings on questions sub- 
mitted to him by the Commanders of the 
Camps of the Department, involving the inter- 
pretation and application of the by-laws of the 
Camps, the by-laws of the Department and 
the enactments of the Department Encamp- 
ment, which rulings shall govern ; provided, 
however, that an appeal from any such rulings 
can be made to the Committee on Appeals and 
Grievances. 

f. He shall review, and approve or disap- 
prove, the rulines of Commanders on questions 
not involving" discipline, on which an appeal 
has been taken from the Commander to the 



114 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

Department Commander, and such action shall 
be final unless an appeal is taken to the Com- 
mittee on Appeals and Grievances- 

g. He shall forward to the Department 
Judge Advocate for his information a copy of 
all rulings made by the Commander-in-Chief 
on questions submitted to him by the Depart- 
ment Commander relative to the interpretation 
and application of the laws of the National 
organization. 

h. He shall be the custodian of all bonds 
and securities as trustee for the Department 
organization. 

i. He shall countersign all w^arrants ap- 
proved by him, drawn by the Department Ad- 
jutant, for the payment of money from the 
funds of the Department, being accountable 
therefor. 

j. He shall countersign all requisitions for 
supplies, approved by him, drawn by the De- 
partment Quartermaster. 

k. He shall see that all dues and all reports 
required to be rendered or forwarded to Na- 
tional Headquarters or to designated officers, 
by the officers of the Department in accordance 
with provisions of the Rules and Regulations 
and the lawful orders of superior officers, are 
rendered or forwarded without delay. 

1. He shall personally sign all communica- 
tions sent from Department Headquarters to 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS II 5 

National Headquarters, and shall personally 
indorse all reports and communications of sub- 
ordinate officers forwarded through Depart- 
ment Headquarters to National Headquarters. 

m. He shall indorse all applications for 
charters for Camps to be located within the 
territorial limits of the Department. 

n. He shall perform all duties required of 
him by the Rules and Regulations in connec- 
tion w^th Camp Courts-Martial and shall re- 
view^ the proceedings in all cases tried by 
courts-martial by him appointed, and approve 
or disapprove their records, findings, and sen- 
tences in all cases wherein the sentence 
directed is less than that of dishonorable dis- 
charg"e ; and shall indorse and forward to the 
Commander-in-Chief the records of all courts- 
martial wherein the sentence directed is that 
of dishonorable discharge. 

o. He shall, whenever a dispute shall arise 
as to the amount due from a Camp of 
the Department for Department per capita 
tax or any fees or charges, decide as 
to the amount to be paid by the Camp 
and upon payment of the amount by the Camp 
under protest, shall refer the matter to the De- 
partment Council of Administration for a 
hearing: and if said Council shall decide that 
an injustice has been done, he shall return to 



i.i6 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

the Camp such amount as the Council shall de- 
clare to be in excess of the amount due. 

p. He shall render to the stated convention 
of the Department Encampment a complete re- 
port in writing of his administration, showing 
the condition of the Department in all material 
respects; which report shall include a summary 
of the reports previously furnished to him by 
the Department Adjutant, the Department 
Quartermaster, the Department Judge Advo- 
cate, the Department Patriotic Instructor, and 
the Department Historian, and may contain 
such matters of interest and such recommen.- 
dations as he deems to be of value to the De- 
partment Encampment. 

q. He shall see that the Department Adju- 
tant and the Department Quartermaster ap- 
pointed by him, unless they are continued in 
ofifice by his successor, turn over to their suc- 
cessors in of^ce all property, and in the case of 
the Quartermaster all funds, of the Depart- 
ment'^for which they may be accountable, and 
shall be held responsible for any delay on the 
part of these officers in performing these duties 
in accordance with the provisions of the Rules 
and Regulations. 

r. He shall exercise general supervision 
over the Department, and, in general, he shall 
perform such duties and exercise such powers 
as are prescribed for him in specific cases by 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS II 7 

the provisions of the Rules and Regulations 
relating thereto, and by the by-laws and enact- 
ments of the Department Encampment of the 
Department, and such as pertain to a chief ex- 
ecutive office of the Department. 

Section 162. Vice Department Command- 
ers. The Vice Department Commanders shall 
assist the Department Commander by counsel, 
or in such other manner as he may direct, and 
in case of his temporary inability, shall fill his 
place according to seniority. 

Section 163. Chairman Pro Tempore. Tn 
case of the absence of the Department Com- 
mander and both the Senior and Junior Vice 
Department Commanders from a convention of 
the Department Encampment, a Past Depart- 
ment Commander, or, if considered advisable, a 
Past Commander-in-Chief, in the membership 
of the Department, shall be elected as presiding 
officer for the convention. 

Section 164. Department Chief of Staff. 

The Department Chief of Staff shall perform 
such duties and have such powers in the De- 
partment as the Department Commander may 
delegate to him. 

Section 165. Department Adjutant. The 

duties of the Department Adjutant shall be as 
follows : 



Il8 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

a. He shall be chief of the Department Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Records, Orders, Cor- 
respondence, and Revenue. 

b. He shall keep a journal of the proceed- 
ings of all conventions of the Department En- 
campment and of all meetings of the Depart- 
ment Council of Administration, attesting the 
same by his signature. 

c- He shall promulgate all orders, general 
and special, and all circulars of the Department 
Commander. 

d. He shall, under the direction of the De- 
partment Commander, attend to all the official 
correspondence of Department Headquarters, 
including all communications passing through 
the same from subordinate to superior officers, 
and the reverse, submitting all communications 
addressed to superior officers to the Depart- 
ment Commander for his consideration and in- 
dorsement. 

e. He shall submit all papers to the official 
scrutiny of the Department Commander, and 
carry out his directions respecting the same. 

f. He shall examine all reports received at 
Department Headquarters, and see that there 
are no errors therein or omissions therefrom, 
and that indorsements which subordinate offi- 
cers are required to make thereon and signa- 
tures thereto attached are in the proper hand- 
writing of such subordinate officers : provided. 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 1 19 

however, that, with the approval of the Depart- 
ment Commander, he may waive technical 
errors and omissions and failure on the part of 
subordinate officers to comply with the pro- 
visions of the Rules and Regulations and the 
by-laws of the Department in cases where the 
report is to remain with Department Head- 
quarters, whenever and wherever in his judg- 
ment, with the approval of the Department 
Commander, the report or indorsement thereon 
is official and the interests of the organization 
will not suffer because of the error, omission, 
or irregularity. He shall return such report 
to the subordinate officer for correction, com- 
pletion, proper indorsement, or signature in all 
cases where the interests of the organization 
appear to require correctness, completeness, 
personal indorsement, or personal signature of 
the subordinate officer, or when ordered to do 
so by a superior officer. 

g. He shall, under the direction of the De- 
partment Commander, prepare all reports and 
returns of the Department required by the 
Rules and Regulations, or the orders of 
superior officers, except those which such 
Rules and Regulations or orders specifically 
prescribe shall be prepared by some other 
officer. 

h. He shall forward promptly to the Adju- 
tant General all National per capita tax re- 



120 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

cci\ ed from the Camps of the Department and 
shall transmit therewith a consolidated semi- 
annual report based upon the semi-annual re- 
ports of the Camps ; provided, however, that 
when only a part of the Camps pay their per 
capita taxes promptly, said taxes shall be for- 
warded with partial consolidated reports. 

i. He shall keep a roster of the Camps of the 
Department, with the names and addresses of 
the Commanders, Adjutants, and Quarter- 
masters, transmitting a copy of the same to 
National Headquarters. 

j- He shall keep a list of applicants rejected 
by Camps of the Department, reporting the 
same through channels to National Head- 
quarters. 

k. He shall keep the following books, 
records, and files : — 

First. A record book, in which shall be kept 
the journal of the conventions of the Depart- 
ment Encampment and of meetings of the De- 
partment Council of Administration, together 
with such entries as the Department Encamp- 
ment or the Department Council of Adminis- 
tration may direct. 

Second. An order book, in which shall be en- 
tered all orders and circulars issued by the De- 
partment Commander. 

TJiird.^ A statistical book, in which shall be 
entered in numerical order the names and num- 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 121 

bers of the Camps of the Department, the num- 
ber of members of the Camps, respectively, and 
the gains and losses in membership thereof as 
shown by the semi-annual reports rendered by 
the Camps from time to time, and all other 
data pertaining to the Camps of the Depart- 
ment that may be of permanent value to the 
Department and the Department officers. 

Fourth. A cash book, in which shall be en- 
tered data showing" the amount of each money 
payment made to the Department, the source 
from which received, and on what account due. 
together with data showing the disposition of 
such sums of money. 

Fifth. A zvarrant booh, in which shall be eut 
tered complete data in reg-ard to warrants 
drawn on the Department Quartermaster, di- 
recting payments from the funds of the Depart- 
ment, includinq- the number and date of the 
warrant, the amount, and to whose order made 
payable, and full details in regard to the pur- 
pose for which the payment from the funds of 
the Department is being made in each instance. 
The warrant book may consist of the stubs of 
a perforated book from which the warrants 
are successively removed as used. 

Sixth. A letters-sent book, in which shall be 
entered copies of all correspondence originat- 
ing with the officers at Department Head- 
quarters upon ojfficial subjects, or, in lieu of 



122 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

such letters-sent book, a file of carbon copies 
of letters sent. 

Seventh. A file of all letters received which 
remain at Department Headquarters. 

Eighth. A letters-received hook, in which 
shall be entered memoranda of all official com- 
munications received by Department Head- 
quarters, the originals of which do not remain 
on file. 

Ninth. A black book, in which shall be re- 
corded the names of all applicants for admis- 
sion to membership who have been rejected by 
any Camp, so far as can be ascertained, and 
also the names of all persons who have been 
dishonorably discharged from membership. 

Tenth. A file of all orders and circulars re- 
ceived from National Headquarters- 

k. He shall receive all moneys due the De- 
partment, making a record of the same in his 
cash book, and deposit them without delay, in 
the name of the Department, with such bank- 
ing institution as has been designated by the 
Department Commander as the depository of 
its funds, transmitting to the Departrnent 
Quartermaster a duplicate deposit slip, 
stamped by the bank, for each deposit made, 
immediately after the making of such deposit, 

1. He shall, under the direction of the De- 
partment Commander, draw all warrants on 
the Department Quartermaster, directing pav- 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS T23 

ments from the funds of the Department, pur- 
suant to the authority of the by-hiws of the 
Department or specific enactments of the De- 
partment Encampment ; and he shall sign and 
present such warrants to the Department Com- 
mander for his approval and countersignature. 

m. He shall be accountable for all property, 
including books, papers and records, of the 
Department turned over to him by his prede- 
cessor or added during his term of office, and 
shall turn over to his successor w^ithin ten days 
all such property, except that thirty days shall 
be allowed for the completion of the record of 
the stated convention of the Department En- 
campment. 

n. He shall furnish to the Department Com- 
mander, just prior to the time for holding the 
stated convention of the Department Encamp- 
ment, a complete report in writing of the work 
of his bureau during his term of office, which 
report shall include all available data and 
statistics relative to the condition of the De- 
partment and of each Camp thereof, and a de- 
tailed statement of his receipts and payments 
on account of the Department, together with 
its assets and liabilities so far as they are mat- 
ters of record in his bureau. He shall also add 
such observations and recommendations as to 
the transaction of business in his bureau as he 
may consider to be of interest to the Depart- 



124 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

nicnt Commander. Said report shall be placed 
in the hands of the De]:)artment Commander 
on or before a day to be fixed by the Depart- 
ment Commander. He shall render like re- 
ports at such other times as the Department 
Commander or Department Council of Admin- 
istration may require. 

o. He shall not appropriate any of the 
money of the Department to his own use, as a 
loan or otherwise, and shall not lend the whole 
or any part thereof to any person. 

p. He shall perform all other clerical duties 
rendered necessary or desirable in the proper 
management of the business of his bureau and 
not specifically pertaining to another adminis- 
trative bureau. 

q. He shall give bond, with an indemnity 
company as surety, for the faithful perform- 
ance of his duties, in a sum at least double the 
amount of the funds and value of the property 
that are likely to be in his hands, the amount of 
such bond to be determined and the surety to 
be approved by the Department Commander. 

Section i66. Department Quartermaster. 

The duties of the Department Quartermaster 
shall be as follows : 

a. He shall be chief of the Department Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Disbursements and 
Supplies. 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 1 25 

b- He shall receive from the De])artment 
Adjutant dupUcate deposit slips stamped by 
the bank, of all money deposited in the name 
of the Department, and shall charge the 
amount of such deposits on his books of ac- 
count as cash received. 

c. He shall be the custodian of all funds of 
the Department except when otherwise pro- 
vided by the by-laws of the Department or by 
enactment of the Department Encampment, 
and shall pay out money only in accordance 
with the authority of the by-laws of the De- 
partment or enactment of the Department En- 
campment, and upon warrants drawm by the 
Department Adjutant and countersigned by 
the Department Commander ordering pay- 
ment. 

d. He shall keep books of account in which 
shall be entered in detail all receipts to and dis- 
bursements from the general fund, and sepa- 
rate books of account for each special fun^ of 
which he is the custodian. 

e. He shall have custody of and sell to the 
Camps all supplies not issued directly from Na- 
tional Headquarters, in the event that the De- 
partment Headquarters shall handle supplies, 
charging therefor the prices fixed by authority 
of the National Encampment. 

f. He shall keep an account with each Camp 
within the Department, in the event that the 



T26 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

Department Headquarters shall handle sup- 
plies, charging such Camps, respectively, with 
all amounts due the Department for such sup- 
plies, and giving proper credit for payments 
made on account thereof. 

g. He shall make requisitions for supplies 
upon the Quartermaster General, or, in proper 
cases, upon the Adjutant General, using the 
form blanks prescribed for that purpose, hav- 
ing first obtained the approval and counter- 
signature of the Department Commander to 
such requisition in each instance before for- 
warding the same to National Headquarters. 

h. He shall be the custodian of all prop- 
erty belonging to the Department w^hich is not 
intrusted to some other officer by the provi- 
sions of the Rules and Regulations or by the 
by-laws of the Department or enactment of the 
Department Encampment, and shall hold and 
dispose of the same under the direction of the 
Department Commander, or in the manner 
designated by the Rules and Regulations or by 
the by-laws of the Department or enactment 
of the Department Encampment- 

i. He shall furnish from time to time, at 
the request of the Department Commander, a 
statement of all funds, supplies, and other 
property in his hands or under his control. 

j. He shall furnish to the Department Com- 
mander, just prior to the time for holding the 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 127 

stated convention of the Department Encamp- 
ment, a complete report in writing- of the work 
of his bureau during his term of office, which 
report shall exhibit the extent and condition 
of all property, including supplies, in his cus- 
tody, a statement of purchases and sales of 
supplies and the profits derived therefrom, in 
the event that the Department Headquarters 
shall handle supplies, and a statement of re- 
ceipts and disbursements made by him on ac- 
count of the general fund of the Department 
and of any special funds of which he is the cus- 
todian, and all assets and liabilities which are 
matters of record in his bureau, tabulated in 
such manner as to enable the Department Com- 
mander to render a concise statement of the 
financial condition of the Department to the 
Department Encampment. He shall also add 
such observations and recommendations as to 
the transaction of business in his bureau as he 
may consider to be of interest to the Depart- 
ment Commander. Said report shall be placed 
in the hands of the Department Commander on 
or before a day to be fixed by the Department 
Commander. 

k. He shall turn over to his successor in 
office within ten days all funds, supplies, and 
property belonging to the Department, to- 
gether with all books of account, vouchers, and 



128 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

other records and papers pertaining- to his bu- 
reau. 

1. He shall not appropriate any of the 
money of the Department to his own use, as a 
loan or otherwise, and shall not lend the whole 
or any part thereof to any person. 

m. He shall perform all other clerical duties 
rendered necessary or desirable in the proper 
management of the business of his bureau and 
not specifically pertaining to another adminis- 
trative bureau. 

n. He shall give bond, with an indemnity 
company as surety, for the faithful perform- 
ance of his duties, in a sum at least double the 
amount of the funds and value of supplies and 
property that are likely to be in his hands, the 
amount of such bond to be determined and the 
surety to be approved by the Department 
Commander- 
Section 167. Department Inspector. The 
duties of the Department Inspector shall be as 
follow^s : 

a. He shall be chief of the Department Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Inspection. 

b. He shall personally make all inspections 
of Camps in the Department required by the 
Inspector General or the Department Com- 
mander to be made by him in person. 

c. He shall supervise the work of the Dis- 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 1 29 

trict Inspectors and receive and verify their 
reports. 

d. He shall superintend the annual inspec- 
tions of the Camps of the Department. 

e. He shall inspect, or cause to be inspected, 
each Camp in the Department at least once 
during his term of office, and shall immediately 
thereafter render a written consolidated report 
in triplicate of such inspection to Department 
Headquarters, on the blank prescribed for that 
purpose, one copy to be forw^arded to the Ad- 
jutant General, one copy to be sent to the In- 
spector General direct, and one copy to be re- 
tained at Department Headquarters. 

f. He shall render to the stated convention 
of the Department Encampment, a complete 
report in writing of the work of his bureau 
during his term of office, which report shall 
include an abstract of all inspections made dur- 
ing his term of office, and a consolidated tabu- 
lation of data of all inspection reports received 
by him in accordance with the Rules and Reg- 
ulations- 

g. He shall furnish special reports upon any 
subject that may be required of him by the 
Inspector General, the Department Comman- 
der, the Department Encampment, or the De- 
partment Council of Administration. 

h. He shall require Camp officers to place 
at his disposal, or that of the District Inspec- 



T30 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

tors, for purposes of inspection, all books, 
papers, accounts, records, and proceeding's of 
the Camp pertaining to the organization. 

Section i68. Department Judge Advocate. 

The duties of the Department Judge Advo- 
cate shall be as follows : 

a. He shall be chief of the Department Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Law and Justice. 

b. He shall assist the Department Com- 
mander, Department Encampment, and De- 
partment Council of Administration in inter- 
preting and applying the by-laws of the De- 
partment, and the enactments of the Depart- 
ment Encampment, and in interpreting the by- 
laws of Camps. 

c. He shall furnish his opinion and advice 
as to the laws of the territory included within 
the Department, when requested to do so by 
the Department Commander, the Department 
Encampment, or the Department 'Council of 
Administration. 

d. He shall examine all records of courts- 
martial and courts of inquiry detailed by the 
Department Commander, and advise the latter 
as to any technical irregularities in the pro- 
ceedings. 

e- He shall examine all by-laws and amend- 
ments to by-laws submitted to the Depart- 



Art. 6 DUTIES UF OFFICERS I3I 

ment Commander by the Camps, and see that 
they are consistent with the laws of the Na- 
tional organization and the by-laws of the De- 
partment. 

f. He shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his bureau as may be, from time to 
time, required of him. 

g. He shall furnish to the Department 
Commander, just prior to the time for holding 
the stated convention of the Department En- 
campment, a complete report in writing of the 
work of his bureau during his term of office, 
which report shall include a digest of the 
opinions furnished by him on questions of the 
interpretation and application of the by-laws 
of the Department and of Camps thereof, and 
enactments of the Department Encampment 
and of Camps of the Department, and a report 
on all other matters pertaining to the work of 
his bureau which have not been submitted 
to or passed upon by superior authority. He 
shall also add such observations and recom- 
mendations as to the laws of the organization 
as he may consider to be of interest to the De- 
partment Commander. Said report shall be 
placed in the hands of the Department Com- 
mander on or before a day to be fixed by the 
Department Commander. 



132 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

Section 169. Department Surgeon. The 

duties of the Department Surgeon shall be as 
follows : 

a. He shall be chief of the Department Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Charity and Relief. 

b. He shall render to the stated conven- 
tion of the Department Encampment a report 
in writings, which shall consist of a consolida- 
tion of the reports rendered to him by the Sur- 
geons, or by the Adjutants, of the relief work 
accomplished by the Camps of the Department 
during his term of office and shall include such 
health statistics as may have been required by 
the Surgeon General, to whom he shall forward 
a copy thereof ninety days prior to the stated 
convention of the National Encampment. He 
shall include in his report such observations 
and recommendations as in his judgment will 
be of value in the w^ork of the bureau. 

c- He shall, when requested, give such pro- 
fessional information and advice to the De- 
partment Commander, the Department En- 
campment, and the Department Council of Ad- 
ministration as may be required to enable them 
to properly carry out the purposes of the or- 
ganization. 

d. He shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his bureau as may be, from time to 
time, required of him. 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 133 

Section 170. Department Chaplain. The 

duties of the Department Chaplain shall be as 
follows : 

a. He shall be chief of the Department Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Devotion and Morality. 

b. He shall conduct all devotional exercises 
of the Department Encampment. 

c. He shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his bureau as may be, from time to 
time, required of him. 

Section 171. Department Patriotic Instruc- 
tor. The duties of the Department Patriotic 
Instructor shall be as follows: 

a. He shall be chief of the Department Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Patriotic Instruction 
and Memorials. 

b- He shall supervise the work of the Patri- 
otic Instructors of the Camps of the Depart- 
ment, and see that all directions received from 
the National Patriotic Instructor and the De- 
partment Commander in regard to the impor- 
tant constructive work of his bureau are faith- 
fully carried out. 

c. He shall furnish to the Department 
Commander just prior to the time for holding 
the stated convention of the Department En- 
campment a report in writing, which shall con- 
sist of a consolidation of the reports rendered 
to him bv the Patriotic Instructors of the work 



1^4 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

in patriotic instruction accomplished, and of 
memorial exercises, observances and dedica- 
tions held by the Camps during his term of 
office, and shall forward a copy thereof to the 
National Patriotic Instructor ninety days prior 
to the stated convention of the National En- 
campment. He shall include in his report such 
observations and recommendations as in his 
judgment will be of value in the work of the 
bureau. 

Section 172. Department Marshal. The 

duties of the Department Marshal shall be as 
follows : 

. a. He shall act as Sergeant-at-Arms at all 
conventions of the Department Encampment. 

b. He shall see that none but members of 
the Department Encampment participate in the 
business of the conventions of the Department 
Encampment, and to that end shall inform him- 
self as to the names and identity of the com- 
rades who are members thereof. 

c. He shall, with the approval of the De- 
partment Commander, appoint as many assis- 
tants pro tempore as he may deem necessary to 
enable him to maintain order at any convention 
of the Department Encampment. 

d- He shall perform such other duties as 
may be required of him by the Department 



Art. 6 DITTIES OF OFFICERS 1 35 

Commander or by enactment of the Depart- 
ment Encampment. 

Section 173. Department Historian. The 
duties of the Department Historian shall be as 
follows: 

a. He shall be chief of the Department Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of History. 

b. He shall be the custodian of such books, 
manuscripts, pamphlets, relics, and like pos- 
sessions relating to the Spanish American War 
and incidental campaigns, belonging to the De- 
partment, as the Department Commander may 
direct. 

c. He shall furnish to the Department 
Commander just prior to the time for holding 
the stated convention of the Department En- 
campment, a report in writing which shall con- 
sist of a consolidation of the reports received 
from the Camp Historians of all notable events, 
except memorial exercises, observances and 
dedications, and all deaths which have occurred 
in the Camps during his term of office ; said 
consolidated report shall also include the re- 
cords of special individual war service rendered 
bv the members of the Department and trans- 
mitted bv the Camps to the Department His- 
torian, who shall add to his report an account 
of all state legislation of a patriotic nature or 
of benefit to war veterans which has been 



136 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

secured within the territory embraced by the 
Department during his term of office. Said re- 
port shall be placed in the hands of the Depart- 
ment Commander on or before a day to be fixed 
by the Department Commander, and a copy 
thereof shall be forwarded to the National His- 
torian not later than ninety days prior to the 
stated convention of the National Encampment. 
d. He shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his bureau as may be, from time to 
time, required of him. 

Section 174. Assistant Department Ad- 
jutants- The Assistant Department Adjutants 
shall assist the Department Adjutant in such 
manner as he may direct ; provided, however, 
that to one of these officers shall be assigned 
the specific duty of taking charge of extension 
work throughout the Department under 
the direction of the Department Com- 
mander and of the Commander-in-Chief 
through the Adjutant General, and he shall 
keep and transmit to his successor in office a 
record in careful detail of all work in recruiting- 
accomplished or attempted by him during his 
term of office, which record shall be incorpo- 
rated in a report to the Department Comman- 
der to be furnished just prior to the time for 
holding the stated convention of the Depart- 
ment Encampment, a copy of which shall be 



Art. 6 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 137 

forwarded to National Headquarters without 
delay. 

Section 175. Assistant Department Quar- 
termasters. The Assistant Department Quar- 
termasters shall assist the Department Quar- 
termaster in such manner as he may direct. 

Section 176. District Inspectors. The 

duties of the District Inspectors shall be as fol- 
lows : 

a. They shall be subordinate to the Depart- 
ment Inspector, and shall assist him in the 
work of his bureau in their respective Districts. 

b. They shall, so far as possible, conduct 
the annual inspections of the Camps within 
their respective Districts, and shall render re- 
ports thereof in triplicate on the prescribed 
blank, w^hich reports shall be forwarded imme- 
diately after each inspection to the Department 
Inspector. 

c. They shall visit the Camps in their re- 
spective Districts from time to time during 
their term and observe and report to the De- 
partment Inspector any irregularities. 

d- They shall instruct the Camps and their 
officers in the^ Ritual and the proper routine, 
and endeavor, by kindly advice and friendly 
counsel, to prevent or correct abuses, to allay 
dissatisfaction, and to promote harmony. 

e. They shall perform any other duties per- 



138 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

taining to the Bureau of Inspection which may 
be required of them by the Department Com- 
mander or the Department Inspector. 

Section 177. Other Officers. All other De- 
partment officers, including the Aides-de-Camp 
on the stafif of the Department Commander, 
shall perform such duties as may be required 
of them by the Department Commander, the 
by-laws of the Department, or by enactment 
of the Department Encampment. 

Article VII. 
COMMITTEES. 

Section 178. Designation. The Department 

Commander shall aj^point the following com- 
mittees : 

Committee on Credentials. 

Committee on Auditing. 

Committee on Legislation. 

Committee on Enactments and Resolutions. 

Section 179 Committee on Credentials. 

The Committee on Credentials shall consist of 
the Department Adjutant and two or more 
other members, to be appointed prior to the 
convening of a convention of the Department 
Encampment. It shall examine and report to 
the Department Encampment upon the creden- 



Art. 7 COMMITTEES 1 39 

tials of members at the opening of the conven- 
tion, and shall submit with its report a list of 
duly accredited officers, past officers, and dele- 
gates present and entitled to participate in the 
convention. 

Section i8o. Committee on Auditing. The 

Committee on Auditing, constituted as shall be 
prescribed in the by-laws of the Department, 
shall audit, or cause to be audited, the books, 
records, and supplies of the Department Ad- 
jutant and the Department Quartermaster, and 
for this purpose shall require a copy of the an- 
nual reports from said officers and a supple- 
mental report to w^ithin one day before the 
stated convention, with balanced bank book. 
The committee shall require said officers to 
turn over to it all books and papers in their 
possession containing such accounts. Said 
committee shall submit a report in writing to 
the stated convention of the Department En- 
campment- 
Section i8i. Committee on Legislation. The 
Committee on Legislation, constituted as shall 
be prescribed in the by-laws of the Depart- 
ment, shall make all proper efforts to promote 
the passage of such legislation within the state 
or states or other subdivisions of the L^nited 
States included within the Department as may 



140 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

be commended to it by the Department En- 
campment, the Department Council of Ad- 
ministration, or the Department Commander, 
and shall co-operate with the National Com- 
mittee on Legislation in all matters in which 
its assistance may be invoked. The committee 
shall render to the stated convention of the De- 
partment Encampment a complete report in 
writing of the work accomplished during its 
term of service, and shall add such observa- 
tions and recommendations as may be deemed 
to be of assistance to the Department Encamp- 
ment. 

Section 182. Committee on Enactments 
and Resolutions. The Committee on Enact- 
ments and Resolutions, constituted as shall 
be prescribed in the by-laws of the Depart- 
ment, shall be appointed before the convening 
or at the first session of a convention of the 
Department Encampment. It shall be the duty 
of the Committee on Enactments and Resolu- 
tions to consider and report on all proposed 
enactments and resolutions and matters that 
may be referred to it by the Department En- 
campment. The committee may also originate 
enactments and resolutions upon matters that 
it deems of interest to the organization, and 
report the same to the Department Encamp- 



Art. 8 PER CAPITA TAX AND FEES T4T 

ment. The report of the committee shall be 
submitted in writing. 

Section 183. Pro tempore Members of Com- 
mittees. In the absence of regular members 
of any of the committees, the Department 
Commander may from time to time appoint 
members of the Department Encampment to 
act thereon in the place and stead of the regu- 
lar members. 

Section 184. Standing Committees. There 
shall be such other standing committees of the 
Department Encampment as the by-laws of the 
Department may prescribe. 

Section 185. Special Committees. The De- 
partment Commander may appoint such ad- 
ditional committees as he may deem to be de- 
sirable to carry on and expedite the w^ork of the 
Department, and such as he may be specially 
authorized to appoint by enactment of the 
Department Encampment. 

Article VIII. 
PER CAPITA TAX AND FEES. 

Section 186. Department Per Capita Tax. 

The Department Encampment shall be em- 
powered to establish the rate of per capita tax, 
not to exceed thirty-five cents on each member 



142 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

of the Camps, respectively, to be paid by the 
several Camps of the Department for the use 
of the Department. In case of the failure of 
the Department Encampment so to provide, 
said tax shall be the maximum amount auth- 
orized by this section. 

Section 187. Registration Fee. Depart- 
ments may provide in their by-laws, re- 
spectively, for the payment by the Camps 
within their respective jurisdictions of a regis- 
tration fee of not more than twenty-five cents 
for each recruit admitted to membership. Said 
fee shall be added to and included in the initia- 
tion fee charged by the Camp. Registration 
fees shall be collected by the Department Adju- 
tant in such manner as may be provided by the 
Department by-laws or as the Department 
Council of Administration shall direct- 
Article IX. 

DELEGATES TO NATIONAL ENCAMP- 
MENT. 
Section 188. Delegates-at-Large. The De- 
partment Encampment, at the time of electing 
officers, shall choose four delegates-at-large to 
the National Encampment, and an equal num- 
ber of alternates to serve for a term of like 
duration as the Department officers elected at 
the same time. 



Art. 9 DELEGATES 1 43 

Section 189. Vacancies: How Filled. Va- 
cancies in the offices of delegates-at-large shall 
be filled during the remainder of the term in 
which they occur by the alternates-at-large in 
the order in which they stand upon the list. 
Vacancies in the offices of delegates to com- 
plete the quota of the Department shall be 
likewise filled by the alternates in the order in 
which they stand upon the list. In the ab- 
sence of a sufficient number of alternates to 
fill vacancies in the offices of delegates-at- 
large and delegates to represent Camps of a 
Department, the representatives of the Depart- 
ment in attendance at a convention of the 
National Encampment may elect acting dele- 
gates to serve in the place and stead of the 
regular delegates-at-large and other delegates, 
or to fill original vacancies caused by the failure 
of the Department Encampment or the Camps 
to elect, provided that such acting delegates 
shall be members in good standing of a Camp 
or Camps, respectively, of the Department the 
representatives of which shall so elect them. 
In no event shall a Department be represented 
by a delegate-at-large or a delegate or an act- 
ing delegate who is not a member in good 
standing of a Camp in good standing of such 
Department. 



144 DEPARTMENTS Part 4 

Section igo. Eligibility. Any comrade who 
is a member in ^ood standing- of a Camp in 
good standing within the jurisdiction of the 
Department shall be eligible to the office of 
delegate-at-large, delegate to complete the 
quota of the Department, or acting delegate, 
whether he be a member of the Department 
Encampment or not. 



Article X. 

BY-LAWS. 

Section 19 1. Department By-Laws. Each 
Department shall, at the time of its institution, 
adopt a code of by-laws, which, with all sub- 
sequent additions thereto and amendments 
thereof, must be consistent with the laws of 
the National organization, and which, before 
,2-oing into effect, shall be submitted to the 
Commander-in-Chief for e'xamination and ap- 
proval. Department by-laws may be added to 
or amended at any stated convention of the 
Department Encampment by a two-thirds vote 
of the members present and voting-, subject to 
the subsequent approval by the Commander- 
in-Chief of the addition or amendment adopted. 



Sub-Part Two 

PROVISIONAL DIVISIONS 

SUMMARY INDEX 

Page 

ART. I. FORMATION AND SUPERVISION. 145 

Sec. 192. Definition. 145 

Sec. 193. Administration. 146 

Sec. 194. Headquarters. 147 

Article I. 

FORMATION AND SUPERVISION. 

Section 192. Definition. ,The Commander- 
in-Chief may, whenever in his discretion the 
interests of the organization demand it, create 
Provisional Divisions by setting off tracts of 
country of convenient size and appointing a 
Provisional Division Commander, who shall 
have supervision of all Camps located in the 
same; but no such Division shall be established 
to include any territory already within the 
jurisdiction of a Department, or unless there 
is a sufficient number of Camps in existence or 
in prospect within its proposed limits to ren- 
der personal supervision necessary. The order 

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creating- a Provisional Division shall specify 
each Camp that is to be under the supervision 
of the Provisional Division Commander. 

Section 193. Administration. The Pro- 
visional Division Commander shall act as the 
personal representative of the Commander-in- 
Chief w4th respect to the Camps located in his 
Di^•ision, and as such shall visit the same or 
otherwise keep informed as to their progress, 
instruct their officers in the Ritual and regula- 
tions of the organization, and generally assist 
in promoting the welfare of the Camps. He 
will be particularly vigilant to detect and cor- 
rect irregularities and to prevent delinquencies, 
and will promptly report any indications of 
such failings to the Commander-in-Chief- The 
Provisional Division Commander shall issue 
no orders nor interfere in the ordinary routine 
of his Camps, beyond calling attention to 
existing regulations and orders, except when 
expressly directed so to do by the Commander- 
in-Chief in particular instances, in which case 
he w411 be obeyed and respected to the extent 
of his deputed authority, as would the Com- 
mander-in-Chief if personally present. He 
shall make such reports and returns to the 
Commander-in-Chief as the Commander-in- 
Chief may require. 



Art. I FORMATION AND SUPERVISION I47 

Section 194. Headquarters. The Head- 
quarters of a Provisional Division shall be 
styled "Provisional Division Headquarters," 
and shall be located at the place of residence 
of the Provisional Division Commander, or as 
otherwise designated by the Commander-in- 
Chief. 



Part Five 
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION 

Sub-Part One 
NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT 



SUMMARY INDEX 

Page 

ART. I. POWERS AND COMPOSITION. 149 

Sec. 195. Authority. 149 

149 

ART. II. CONVENTIONS. 149 

Sec. 196. Stated Convention. 149 

Sec. 197. Proposals for Stated Conventions. 150 

Sec. 198. Approval of Entertainment. 150 

Sec. 199. Special Conventions. 150 

Sec. 200. Conventions: How Called. 151 

Sec. 201. Quorum. 151 

Sec. 202. Voting at Conventions. 151 

Sec. 203. Representation by Alternates. 152 
Sec. 204. Order of Business at Stated Conventions. 152 

Sec. 205. Hours of Sitting. 154 

Sec. 206. Annual Reports. 155 

Sec. 207. Introduction of Business. 155 

Sec. 208. Nomination of Officers. 157 

Sec. 209. Election of Officers. 159 
Sec. 210. Action on Proposed Enactments and 

Resolutions. 162 



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Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 149 

Page 

Sec. 211. Unfinished Business. 163 

Sec. 212. Order of Business at Special Conventions. 163 

Sec. 213. Rules of Order. 164 

Sec. 214. Roll Call. 169 

Sec. 215. Publication of Proceedings. 170 



Article I. 

POWERS AND COMPOSITION. 

Section 195. Authority. The powers and 

composition of the National Encampment shall 

be in accordance with the provisions of article 

YI of the Constitution relating thereto. 

Article II. 
CONVENTIONS. 

Section 196. Stated Convention, a. A 

stated convention of the National Encampment 
shall be held annually between the first day of 
August and the first day of October, at such 
time and place as may have been fixed by the 
National Encampment at the next preceding 
stated convention ; provided, however, that if 
the National Encampment fails to fix the time 
or place for its next convention, or, having 
done so, it becomes expedient to change either 
the time or place, the Commander-in-Chief shall, 
with the advice and consent of the National 
Council of Administration, appoint the time, 



150 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

and the National Council of. Administration, 
shall, by a majority vote, select the place, or, 
by a two thirds vote, change the place from 
that designated by the National Encampment. 
b. Each National Encampment shall be 
numerically designated in a series beginning 
with the first National Encampment of Spanish 
War Veterans which convened in 1899; pro- 
vided, however, that numerical designations of 
the National Encampment given hitherto are 
hereby recognized. 

Section 197. Proposals for Stated Conven- 
tions. Proposals ma(,le to the National En- 
campment under the eleventh order of business 
as to the place for holding its next stated con- 
vention shall be accompanied by such guaran- 
tees as the National Encampment may from 
time to time require. 

Section 198. Approval of Entertainment. 

At the stated convention of the National En- 
campment, the plan for the entertainment of 
the members thereof proposed by the conven- 
tion city shall be submitted to the Commander- 
in-Chief for his approval. No plan shall be 
approved w^hich shall interfere with the busi- 
ness of the Encampment. 

Section 199. Special Conventions. Special 
conventions of the National Encampment may 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS I5I 

be called by the Commander-in-Chief, with the 
approval of the National Council of Adminis- 
tration expressed in a two-thirds vote, at such 
time and place as they shall appoint. 

Section 200. Conventions: How Called. An 
official call shall be issued by the Commander- 
in-Chief at least sixty days prior to the date 
of any convention of the National Encamp- 
ment, stated or special. 

Section 201. Quorum. At all conventions 
of the National Encampment any number of 
members shall constitute a quorum, provided 
that representatives of not less than ten dif- 
ferent Departments are present and sitting. 

Section 202. Voting at Conventions. Each 
member present at a convention of the Na- 
tional Encampment shall be entitled to one 
vote on each matter considered and submitted 
for action, and no proxies or pairs shall be 
counted. All members shall vote on all ques- 
tions unless excused by a vote of the National 
Encampment, to be taken without debate. 
Whenever a comrade holds more than one 
office, each of which carries with it a seat in 
the National Encampment, he shall sit and vote 
for the highest office held by him, the others 
remaining unrepresented : provided, however 
that National officers shall sit and vote as such. 



152 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

Section 203. Representation by Alternates. 

Delegates alone may be represented by alter- 
nates at a stated or special convention of the 
National Encampment from which they absent 
themselves. In case of the absence of mem- 
bers of the National Encampment who are en- 
titled to seats by virtue of present or past office, 
their seats shall be vacant. 

Section 204. Order of Business at Stated 
Conventions- The stated convention of the 
National Encampment shall be opened at the 
time fixed as hereinbefore provided, and shall 
continue from day to day thereafter until all 
business shall have been disposed of, but in 
any event for at least three consecutive days. 
Whenever practicable an informal session 
shall be held at the time designated for the 
opening of the National Encampment, or prior 
thereto, which may be devoted to the reception 
of greeting committees, addresses of welcome 
and responses thereto, and the publication of 
details regarding the plan of entertainment 
devised by the committee of arrangements of 
the convention city. The order of business 
shall be as follows: — 

1. Opening of the National Encampment in 
due form. 

2. Report of the Committee on Credentials. 

3. Reports of officers and committees. 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 1 53 

4. Anouncement or appointment of the 
Committee on Enactments and the Committee 
on Resolutions, and reception and reference 
without debate to said committees, respec- 
tively, of such proposed enactments and such 
proposed resolutions as have not been filed 
w^ith the Adjutant General prior to the assem- 
bling- of the National Encampment. 

Second Day. 

5. Nomination of officers for the ensuing 
year. 

6. Report of the Committee on Enactments 
on matters referred to it, and action of the Na- 
tional Encampment thereon. 

7. Report of the Committee on Resolutions 
on matters referred to it, and action of the 
National Encampment thereon. 

8. Report of the Committee on Appeals and 
Grievances. 

Third Day. 

9. Election of Officers for the ensuing year. 

10. Unfinished business. 

11. Selection of the time and place for the 
next stated convention. 

12. Installation of officers. 

13. Closing of the National Encampment in 
due form. 

Whenever the order of business for the day 
is not finished it shall be taken up on the fol- 
lowing- day before proceeding with the next 



154 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

order of business, except that the nomination 
of officers for the ensuing year shall always be 
taken up as the first order of business on the 
second day, and the election of officers for the 
ensuing year shall always be taken up as the 
first order of business on the third day, and in 
each case completed before proceeding to the 
regular calendar; provided, however, that dur- 
ing the election of officers, so far as may be 
practicable, the National Encampment shall 
proceed with the regular order of business, 
suspending the same to receive the reports of 
the tellers and to ballot again when there has 
been no choice. An order of business which 
has been finished may be re-opened by a two- 
thirds vote of the National Encampment, or by 
the declaration of the presiding officer if no 
objection is raised thereto, at any subsequent 
period of the convention. 

Section 205. Hours of Sitting. The follow- 
ing hours are established for each daily sitting 
of the National Encampment when in conven- 
tion assembled : morning session, from 9 :30 
o'clock A. M. until 12:30 o'clock P. M.; recess 
from 12:30 o'clock P. M. until 2 o'clock P. M. ; 
afternoon session, when deemed necessary, 
from 2 o'clock P. M. until 5 o'clock P- M. ; pro- 
vided, however, that the National Encampment 
may, by a tw^o-thirds vote, direct changes in 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 155 

the foregoing schedule to be observed on any 
specified day or days, and may, in Hke manner, 
direct evening sessions to be held- 

Section 206. Annual Reports. At each 
stated convention of the National Encamp- 
ment every retiring officer vv^ho is required by 
the provisions of the Rules and Regulations to 
make an annual report, and standing and spe- 
cial committees through their respective chair- 
men, shall present their reports in writing, or 
in printed form and such reports if not printed, 
shall be read, under the third order of business, 
by the officer or chairman personally, if pre- 
sent, or if absent, by a comrade designated by 
the presiding officer of the convention- This 
section shall not apply to the Committee on 
Credentials, nor to the Committee on Enact- 
ments, nor to the Committee on Resolutions, 
nor to the Committee on Appeals and Griev- 
ances, which committees shall present their 
reports, under the second, sixth, seventh, and 
eighth orders of business, respectively. All 
parts of annual reports which embody recom- 
mendations for proposed enactments shall be 
referred without debate to the Committee on 
Enactments; otherwise, to the Committee on 
Resolutions. 

Section 207. Introduction of Business, a. All 
propositions offered for the consideration of the 



156 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

National Encampment, except formal motions 
made in the ordinary course of the proceedings, 
compHmentary motions, and recommendations 
contained in annual reports, shall be presented 
in writing and signed by the comrade intro- 
ducing the same. 

b. Such proposition shall be presented 
either in the form of an enactment or as a 
resolution. Propositions which, if adopted, 
will constitute an amendment to the Rules 
and Regulations, to the Ritual, to the 
ceremonies prescribed in the Book of Cere- 
monies, to forms of procedure and all special 
laws, shall be classified as enactments, while 
those which w^ill merely express the wishes, 
opinion, or sentiment of the National Encamp- 
ment on any matter not requiring legislative 
action shall be classified as resolutions. 

c. Each enactment and resolution intended 
for presentation to the convention shall be 
written or printed, on one side only of a suffi- 
cient number of letter-size sheets, and may be 
filed with the Adjutant General prior to the 
opening of the convention, or presented under 
the fourth order of business, and in each case 
shall be referred to the proper committee, but 
shall not thereafter be received e*xcept bv 
unanimous consent. 

d. The following clause shall precede each 
proposed enactment; proposed amendments to 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 157 

the Constitution and proposed special enact- 
ments to be specially designated, viz. : 

Be it enacted by the National Encampment in 
convention assembled, and by the authority of the 
same, as follows: — 

e. The following clause shall precede each 
proposed resolution ; viz. : 

Resolved, by the National Encampment of the 
United Spanish War Veterans, in convention as- 
sembled, 

That (etc.) 

f. The" Committee on Enactments shall 
draft, and present w^ith its report, appropriate 
enactments based upon such recommendations 
in annual reports referred to it as have re- 
ceived the approval of a majority of the com- 
mittee, and in like manner the Committee on 
Resolutions shall draft and present appropriate 
resolutions recommended in annual reports Xo 
it referred and approved by a majority of the 
committee. 

Section 208. Nomination of Officers, a. All 

candidates for elective offices, in order to be- 
come entitled to have their names printed on 
the official ballot, shall be nominated from the 
floor under the fifth order of business. 

b. Beginning with the highest office the 
presiding officer shall call for nominations of 



1 58 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

candidates for the same and shall give an op- 
portunity to all who wish to present or second 
nominations to do so, after which the conven- 
tion shall, by vote, declare the nominations for 
that office closed and proceed to the next office. 
No new nominations shall be received after 
such vote, except by the unanimous consent 
of the convention before passing to another 
order of business. 

c. Nominating speeches for the office of 
Commander-in-Chief shall not exceed ten min- 
utes each in duration, and for other officers 
they shall not exceed five minutes each in dura- 
tion. Speeches seconding nominations for the 
office of Commander-in-Chief shall not exceed 
five minutes each in duration, and for other of- 
fices they shall not exceed three minutes each 
in duration. 

d. Before proceeding w^th the nominations, 
the several candidates for the respective offices, 
or their representatives, shall notify the pre- 
siding officer in writing as to the names of the 
comrades who have been selected to nominate 
and second their respective nominations, and 
the presiding officer shall recognize such com- 
rades in the order in which their names appear 
on the memoranda in preference to others who 
may address the chair. 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 1 59 

Section 209. Election of Officers, a. The 

official ballot shall be printed in single column, 
the titles of the offices for which candidates 
are to be nominated to be in order of rank, 
and the names of candidates for each office in 
alphabetical order, commencing at the top, fol- 
lowing the title of the office. After the list 
of candidates for each office, there shall be 
provided a blank line for the writing in of a 
name. At the right side of the ballot there 
shall be a square of appropriate size after each 
name and blank line. Only those candidates 
w^ho have been duly nominated from the floor 
shall be entitled to have their names printed on 
the official ballot. At the conclusion of the 
nominations, the Adjutant General shall make 
up the official ballot and certify same, and 
cause the ballot so certified to be printed in 
due season for use at the election of officers. 
To vote, the comrade voting shall mark a cross 
(X) in the square at the right of a candidate's 
name as printed or a name written on the 
blank line- 

b. The presiding officer shall cause two or 
more ballot boxes to be provided at different 
places in the convention hall, or, whenever 
practicable, in an adjoining room, and the roll 
of the convention to be divided into check lists 
equal in number to the ballot boxes. 

Each elector shall vote at the ballot box 



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at which is located the check list on which his 
name appears, and the presiding officer shall 
seasonably publish such information as may 
be necessary to enable each elector to distin- 
guish his polling place. 

Upon proceeding to the ninth order of busi- 
ness the presiding officer, without a formal 
motion to that effect, shall appoint for each 
ballot box a committee of three tellers to re- 
ceive the votes, the first-named in each case 
being the chairman. It shall be the duty of 
the chairman to supervise the balloting at the 
polling place to which he is assigned, assisted 
by his two colleagues, one of whom shall have 
charge of the ballot box, and the other of the 
check list. 

The presiding officer shall also appoint a re- 
turning board of five members to receive the 
ballot boxes and check lists from the tellers at 
the conclusion of the balloting, and to sort, 
verify, and count the votes. 

c. No candidate whose name appears in 
print upon the official ballot shall be eligible to 
serve as a teller or as a member of the return- 
ing board. 

Whenever there is a contest over any office, 
representation shall be given the several can- 
didates among the tellers and in the returning 
board so far as is practicable. 

d- Each elector shall prepare an official bal- 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS l6l 

lot and proceed to his polling: place, where he 
shall give his name to the tellers, w^ho shall 
repeat the same in an audible tone and, at the 
same time, mark at the left side thereof on the 
check list a dash (— ). The elector shall then, 
and before any other name is checked, person- 
ally deposit his ballot in the ballot box. 

The polls shall be open from 9:45 a. m. to 
12 m., at which hour they shall be closed, un- 
less the National Encampment, prior to the 
opening- of the polls at any stated convention 
thereof, shall vote to change the hour for clos- 
insf. 

e. The returning board shall then count the 
votes and report the result to the convention. 
The acceptance of the report of the returning 
board shall be final, and no recount or other 
revision of the returns shall thereafter be in 
order. If it shall appear from the returns that 
no choice has been reached for one or more of 
the offices to be filled, successive ballots shall 
be taken until a choice is reached for every of- 
fice, and all subsequent ballots shall be con- 
ducted as provided for the first. 

The official ballot shall be used as long as the 
supply holds out, after w^hich printed or writ- 
ten slips shall be received. When printed or 
written slips are used, the convention shall 
ballot for each office separately and the choice 
of an elector shall be indicated by writing the 



l62 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

name of the candidate on the sHp or by voting 
a slip bearing- the candidate's name in print, 
without marking: a cross against the name as 
required on the official ballot. 

Section 210. Action on Proposed Enact- 
ments and Resolutions, a. Under the sixth 
and seventh orders of business the Committee 
on Enactments and the Committee on Resolu- 
tions shall report on all propositions which 
have been referred to them, respectively, pre- 
senting each proposition separately. Each re- 
port shall include a brief explanation of the 
nature and efifect of the particular measure and 
the recommendation of the committee thereon 
which, if favorable, will be worded "ought to 
pass," and if unfavorable, "leave to withdraw." 

b. The committee shall submit a correct 
draft in suitable form for action of each meas- 
ure reported by it except in case of measures 
on which the report is unanimously unfavor- 
able- Should the National Encampment fail to 
sustain the committee in a unanimously unfa- 
vorable report, the measure, if not already in 
correct form, shall be recommitted with in- 
structions to redraft the same. 

c. Debate and action shall be had on each 
proposition reported by the committee before 
receiving the report on another measure. 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 1 63 

Section 211. Unfinished Business. Under 
the tenth order of business the convention shall 
transact any business which does not properly 
belong under the classifications of the preced- 
ing orders of business, and shall take action on 
any petitions, appeals, or other communica- 
tions which have been received prior to the 
passing to this order of business. Such peti- 
tions, appeals, or communications may be in- 
troduced at any time up to the opening of the 
tenth order of business, and if filed on or before 
the second day of the convention may, in the 
discretion of the Commander-in-Chief, be re- 
ferred to the Committee on Appeals and Griev- 
ances or to a special committee for investiga- 
tion, and shall be so referred if they involve 
matters concerning which no member of the 
National Encampment has positive informa- 
tion or which are in dispute. 

Section 212. Order of Business at Special 
Conventions. The order of business to be ob- 
served at a special convention of the National 
Encampment shall be prescribed by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, having regard for the objects 
for which such special convention is assembled, 
and with as close a conformity to the order of 
business prescribed for stated conventions as 
the circumstances will permit. 



164 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

Section 213. Rules of Order. The follow- 
ing rules of order will govern all conventions 
of the National Encampment: 

Rule I. Each morning session shall be 
opened with prayer by the Chaplain-in-Chief, 
or in his absence by some other comrade, and 
the final session shall be closed in the same 
manner. 

Rule 2. The presiding officer shall state 
every question properly presented to the Na- 
tional Encampment, and before putting it to a 
vote shall ask, 'Ts the Encampment ready for 
the question?" Should no member offer to 
speak, the presiding officer shall rise to put the 
question, and after he has risen no further dis- 
cussion shall be in order. 

Rule 3. The presiding officer shall announce 
the result of all votes and decide all points of 
order raised, subject to an appeal from his de- 
cision by the member raising the point of or- 
der to the National Encampment, which appeal 
shall, if the presiding officer so requires, be re- 
duced to writing by the appellant, stating the 
grounds on which it is taken. The presiding 
officer may speak to points of order in prefer- 
ence to other members rising for the purpose. 
There shall be no debate on points of order 
unless the presiding officer invites it, or unless 
an appeal is taken. 

Rule 4. When the National Encampment is 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 165 

about to vote on an appeal taken from the de- 
cision of the i)residing- officer on a point of or- 
der; the presiding officer shall surrender the 
chair to some other member who is qualified 
to preside, who shall put the question thus : 
"Shall the decision of the chair be sustained by 
the National Encampment?" 

Rule 5. A member who rises and addresses 
the chair shall announce his name and Depart- 
ment, which shall be entered on the records of 
the convention. 

Rule 6. A motion may be withdrawn by 
the member making the same with the con- 
sent of the seconder before a vote is had there- 
on, and if so withdrawn no record thereof shall 
be made. 

Rule 7. A question containing two or more 
distinct propositions shall be divided at the re- 
quest of any member. 

Rule 8. A member shall not be entitled to 
speak more than twice on any one question ex- 
cept to make an explanation when misrepre- 
sented; nor longer than ten minutes at one 
time unless further privileges shall be granted 
to him by a majority vote of the National En- 
campment. 

Rule 9. A member shall not be interrupted 
while speaking except for the purpose of rais- 
ing a point of order or by a member desiring 



l66 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

to make an explanation under a claim that he 
is being misrepresented by the speaker. 

Rule lo. When speaking a member shall 
confine his remarks to the question before the 
National Encampment, and shall refrain from 
personalities, unbecoming language, or disres- 
pect towards other members. 

Rule II. While on the floor of the conven- 
tion members shall refrain from loud conversa- 
tion and other conduct calculated to disturb a 
member who is speaking, or which is likely to 
hinder the transaction of business, and no one 
shall pass between the chair and a member who 
is addressing the National Encampment. 

Rule 12. While a question is before the Na- 
tional Encampment the only motions in order 
shall be : 

a. To adjourn. 

b. To lay on the table. 

c. The previous question. 

d- To postpone indefinitely. 

e. To postpone to a definite time. 

f. To amend. 

Such motions shall take precedence in the 
order named. 

Rule 13. Not more than two amendments to 
a question shall be pending at the same time. 

Ride 14. When the previous auestion is 
moved and seconded it shall preclude all other 
motions and debate, and shall be immediatelv 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 167 

put to the National Encampment in the fol- 
lowing form: "Shall the original question be 
now put?" If decided in the affirmative the 
original question shall at once be put to a vote 
without further debate, and in the same man- 
ner as if the previous question had not been 
moved. 

Rule 15. A motion to adjourn shall always 
be in order except when a member is speaking, 
while a vote is being taken, or when a motion 
to adjourn has been lost and no other busi- 
ness has intervened. 

Rule i6- A motion to adjourn shall not be 
subject to amendment except in case of a mo- 
tion to adjourn to a stated time or place, which 
shall be open to amendment as to the time and 
place. 

Rule 17. The 3^eas and nays may be re- 
quired on any question at the call of any three 
members representing three different Depart- 
ments, and shall be entered on the records of 
the convention. 

Rule 18. When a question is postponed in- 
definitely it shall not again be in order at the 
same convention of the National Encampment 
except by unanimous consent. 

Rule 19. A motion to reconsider shall be in 
order at any time during the same convention 
of the National Encampment, but it shall be 
made by a member who voted with the prevail- 



l68 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT Part 5 

ing side, or, in case of an equal division, by a 
member who voted in the negative. When a 
motion to reconsider is lost it shall not be re- 
newed at the same convention. 

Rule 20. When a majority report is fol- 
lowed by a report from the minority of a com- 
mittee, the majority report, having been read, 
shall lie on the table until the minority report 
is presented, after which, on motion, either re- 
port may be considered. 

Rule 21. When a report has been read it 
shall be considered to be properly before the 
National Encampment without a formal mo- 
tion to accept the same, and no report properly 
before the National Encampment shall be 
withdrawn without its permission, to be grant- 
ed or refused by a majority vote and without 
debate. 

Rule 22. The following questions shall be 
put to a vote without debate : 

a. To adjourn. 

b. To lay on the table. 

c. The previous question. 

d. To take up an}^ particular business. 

e- To refer back to an order of business 
which has been passed. 

f. To grant leave to speak. 

g. To grant leave to withdraw a report. 
h. To excuse from voting. 

A motion to adjourn to a stated time and 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS 169 

place shall be open to debate as to the time or 
place- 

Rule 23. A point of order, protest, or ap- 
peal shall not be in order while a vote is being 
taken, but shall be raised at the conclusion of 
the voting and disposed of before the result is 
declared. 

Rule 24. Subject to the foregoing rules of 
order, the proceedings of the National En- 
campment when in convention assembled shall 
be governed by Robert's Rules of Parliamen- 
tary Practice. 

Section 214. Roll Calls. The official roll of 
the National Encampment to be used at a con- 
vention in taking the yeas and nays and in bal- 
loting for officers shall bear the names of those 
members present at that convention only, who 
have duly presented their credentials and have 
been reported by the Committee on Creden- 
tials. The official roll shall be arranged in 
groups as follows : The first group shall con- 
tain the names of the Commander-in-Chief, 
Past Commanders-in-Chief, and the other Na- 
tional officers ; the second group shall contain 
the names of all members from unattached 
Camps ; and the remaining members shall be 
grouped by Departments. The Departments 
shall be listed in alphabetical order, according 
to the initial letter of the name or designation 



lyo NATIONAL ENCAMPiMENT Part 5 

thereof. The roll shall ordinarily be called in 
the order in which it is arranged, but when- 
ever it shall appear that, for any reason, the 
members from a particular Department are 
likely to lose their votes if compelled to wait 
until reached in the ordinary progress of a roll 
call, as, for example, when compelled to depart 
on their homeward journey before the adjourn- 
ment of the convention, the presiding officer 
shall direct such members to be polled forth- 
with upon being informed of such emergency. 

Section 215. Publication of Proceedings. 

The reports of officers and committees pre- 
sented to and the enactments and resolutions 
adopted by each convention of the National 
Encampment, the motions made from the floor 
of the convention and adopted, the composi- 
tion of committees of the Encampment, mat- 
ters pertaining to the nomination and election 
of officers and list of members w^ho attended 
the convention, shall constitute the official re- 
port of the proceedings thereof to be printed ; 
provided, however, that there may be incor- 
porated a synopsis of the addresses of welcome 
and responses thereto, and a brief account of 
such business and social features of the con- 
vention as is deemed to be of interest to the 
organization. The preparation of said pro- 
ceedings for printing shall be made under the 



Art. 2 CONVENTIONS I7I 

supervision of the Commander-in-Chief, or 
other permanent presiding officer in the ab- 
sence or inabihty of the Commander-in-Chief, 
who presides at such convention. Said pro- 
ceedings shall be prepared for printing within 
two months from the adjournment of such 
couA'cntion, and shall be forvv^arded to the 
Commander-in-Chief in office who shall have 
the same printed and distributed to the organ- 
ization within two months from the time of re- 
ceipt thereof- A copy of said printed proceed- 
ings shall be sent to each permanent member 
of the National Encampment, to each other 
member thereof present at the convention, to 
each Department Headquarters, and to each 
Camp. Not more than two hundred copies in 
excess of the number required to comply with 
the provisions of this section shall be printed 
unless the National Council of Administration 
shall, by vote, authorize the printing of a 
srreater number. The surplus copies shall be 
distributed to such libraries, kindred societies, 
and individuals as the Commander-in-Chief 
mav direct. 



Sub-Part Two. 

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF 
ADMINISTRATION 



SUMMARY INDEX 

ART. 1. FORMATION AND FUNCTIONS 172 

Sec. 216. Composition. 172 

Sec. 217. Duties and Powers. 172 

Sec. 218. Meetings. 173 

Sec. 219. Quorum. 174 



Article I. 

FORMATION AND FUNCTIONS. 

Section 216. Composition. The National 
Council of Adminstration shall consist of the 
Commander-in-Chief, the Senior and Junior 
Vice Commanders-in-Chief, all National of- 
ficers except National Aides-de-Camp, the sev- 
eral Department Commanders, and the Pro- 
visional Division Commanders for the time be- 
ing". 

Section 217. Duties and Powers. The Na- 
tional Council of Administration shall exercise 

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Art. I FORMATION AND FUNCTIONS 1 73 

the powers prescribed for it in the Constitution, 
and such authority and powers, subject to the 
Constitution, as may be prescribed in the Rules 
and Regulations, or as may be expressly dele- 
gated to it by enactment of the National En- 
campment. In the interim between conven- 
tions of the National Encampment, the ap- 
proval of the National Council of Administra- 
tion by a majority vote, of any proposed emer- 
gency action by the Commander-in-Chief re- 
ferred to it by him, shall authorize the Com- 
mander-in-Chief to take such action ; provided, 
however, that reference of the same shall be 
made by him to the National Encampment at 
its next stated convention for its approval or 
disapproval. 

Section 218. Meetings- Meetings of the 
National Council of Administration may be 
called by the Commander-in-Chief just prior 
to or during the convention of the National 
Encampment, and at the same place, and such 
meetings shall be called by him if five mem- 
bers of said National Council of Administra- 
tion request the same in writing. At all other 
times the votes and opinions of the members 
of the National Council of Administration 
shall be obtained by mail, the question on 
which action is to be taken having been sea- 
sonably submitted to each member by letter 



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or circular setting forth the proposition in suf- 
ficient detail to define clearly the issue in- 
volved. 

Section 219. Quorum. At meetings of the 
National Council of Administration nine mem- 
bers, representing not less than fi\e Depart- 
ments shall constitute a quorum. 



Sub-Part Three 

NATIONAL OFFICERS AND 
COMMITTEES 

SUMMARY INDEX 

Page 
ART. I. NATIONAL OFFICERS. 175 

Sec. 220. Eligibility to Office. 175 

Sec. 221. Roster. 176 

Sec. 222. How Chosen. 177 

Sec. 223. Officers Pro Tempore. 178 

Sec. 224. Removal of Appointive Officers. 178 
Sec. 225. Vacancies in Appointive Offices: 

How Filled. 179 
Sec. 226. Vacancy in the Office of Commander- 
in-Chief: How Filled. 179 
Sec. 227. Vacancies in Elective Offices: 

How Filled. 179 

Sec. 228. Resignations. 180 

ART. II. DUTIES OF NATIONAL OFFICERS. 180 
Sec. 229. General Provisions. 180 



Art. I OFFICERS 175 

Page 

Sec. 230. Commander-in-Chief. 181 

Sec. 231. Vice Commanders-in-Chief. 184 

Sec. 232. Chairman Pro Tempore. 185 

Sec. 233. Chief of Staff. 185 

Sec. 234. Adjutant General. 185 

Sec. 235. Quartermaster General. 191 

Sec. 236. Inspector General. 195 

Sec. 237, Judge Advocate General. 196 

Sec. 238. Surgeon General. 198 

Sec. 239. Chaplain-in-Chief. 199 

Sec. 240. National Patriotic Instructor. 199 

Sec. 241. Provost Marshal. 200 

Sec. 242. National Historian. 201 

Sec. 243. Assistant Adjutant General. 202 

Sec. 244. Assistant Quartermaster General. 202 

Sec. 245. Other National Officers. 202 

ART. III. NATIONAL COMMITTEES. 202 

Sec. 246. Standing Committees. 202 

Sec. 247. How Appointed. 203 

Sec. 248. Executive Committee. 204 

Sec. 249. Committee on Appeals and Grievances. 204 

Sec. 250. Committee on Finance, 205 

Sec. 251. Committee on Legislation. 206 

Sec. 252. Committee on Credentials. 206 

Sec. 253. Committee on Enactments. 207 

Sec. 254. Committee on Resolutions. 208 

Sec. 255. Auditing Committee. 208 

Sec. 256. Special Committees. 210 

Sec. 257. Meetings of Committees. 211 

Article I. 

NATIONAL OFFICERS. 

Section 220. Eligibility to Office. All com- 
rades of the United Spanish War Veterans 



176 NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

who are in good standing shall be eligible to 
hold any National office ; provided, however, 
that the Judge Advocate General shall be a 
member of the bar of the state or other sub- 
division of the United States in which he re- 
sides ; provided, further, that the Surgeon Gen- 
eral shall be a physician legally competent to 
practice medicine under the laws of the state 
or other sub-division of the United States in 
which he resides ; provided, further, that the 
Chaplain-in-Chief shall be a professed member 
of some religious sect or denomination ; and 
provided, further, that a comrade who has held 
an elective office during a full term shall not 
be eligible for re-election to such office until 
the expiration of one year from the date of his 
retirement from such office. No comrade shall 
be selected for an office who has not given his 
consent thereto. 

Section 221. Roster Besides the Comman- 
der-in-Chief, the Senior Vice Commander-in- 
Chief and the Junior Vice Commander-in- 
Chief, the National officers shall be a Chief of 
Staff, an Adjutant General, a Quartermaster 
General, an Inspector General, a Judge Advo- 
cate General, a Surgeon General, a Chaplain- 
in-Chief, a National Patriotic Instructor, a 
Provost Marshal, a National Historian, an As- 
sistant Adjutant General, an Assistant Ouar- 



Art. I OFFICERS 177 

termaster General and as many Aides-de- 
Camp as, in the opinion of the Commander-in- 
Chief, the interests of the organization, for the 
time being, require. In addition, members of 
the National Council of Administration, other 
than National officers, shall be National offi- 
cers ex-officio. 

• Section 222. How Chosen. The Chief-of- 
Staff, Adjutant General, Quartermaster Gen- 
eral, Inspector General, Judge Advocate Gen- 
eral, National Patriotic Instructor, Provost 
Marshal, National Historian, Assistant Adju- 
tant General, Assistant Quartermaster General, 
and Aides-de-Camp shall be appointed by the 
Commander-in-Chief. 

All other National officers shall be elected 
by the National Encampment at its stated con- 
vention by a majority vote of the members 
present and voting, and shall be immediately 
installed in office to serve for the term of one 
year, or until their successors are duly selected 
and installed. Appointive officers need not be 
formally installed in office, and shall serve un- 
til their respective successors are appointed ; 
provided, however, that Aides-de-Camp in of- 
fice at the end of the term of the Commander- 
in-Chief appointing them shall leave office with 
him. In case an officer-elect is not present to 
be formallv installed at the convention of the 



178 NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

National Encampment at which he is elected 
to office, the Commander-in-Chief shall obli- 
gate him to faithfully perform the duties of his 
office at the first convenient opportunity or 
shall detail some other National officer to do 
so ; and this shall as fully qualify him to as- 
sume and disch^arge the duties of his office as 
would a formal installation. 

Section 223. Officers Pro Tempore. The 

Commander-in-Chief may, in the temporary 
absence of a National officer, elective or ap- 
pointive, or until a vacancy in an elective office 
can be filled, or whenever the interests of the 
organization require, detail any comrade as an 
acting officer. Such acting officer may sit in 
conventions of the National Encampment or 
meetings of the National Council of Adminis- 
tration for the purpose of discharging the 
duties of the office; but he shall not, by virtue 
of such pro tempore office, be entitled to speak 
or vote unless he holds membership as the 
regular incumbent of some other office or as a 
delegate. The official and lawful acts of an 
acting officer shall be of full force and effect. 

Section 224. Removal of Appointive Offi- 
cers. The Commander-in-Chief may remove 
appointive officers from office at pleasure. 



Art. I OFFICERS 179 

Section 225. Vacancies in Appointive Of- 
fices: How Filled. All vacancies in appointive 
offices shall be filled by the Commander-in- 
Chief. 

Section 226. Vacancy in the Office of Com- 
mander-in-Chief: How Filled, a. Should the 
office of Coxnmander-in-Chief become vacant, 
said office shall be filled in accordance with the 
provisions of section 2, article VIII of the Con- 
stitution. 

b. In case of the death, resignation, or per- 
manent inability of the Commander-in-Chief, 
and both the Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief 
and the Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief, the 
National* Council of Administration shall elect 
an acting- Commander-in-Chief, to serve until 
the next stated convention of the National En- 
campment, and until such acting Commander- 
in-Chief is elected the National officer highest 
in rank who is available shall discharge the 
duties of the office as Commander-in-Chief 
pro tempore. 

Section 227. Vacancies in Elective Offices: 
How Filled- In case of a vacancy in an elec- 
tive National office other than that of Com- 
mander-in-Chief, the Commander-in-Chief shall 
nominate a comrade to fill the same, and such 
nomination shall forthwith be submitted by 
mail to the National Council of Administra- 



i8o NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

tion. If a majority of the members of the 
National Council of Administration, voting by 
mail, are in favor of confirming such nomina- 
tion, the comrade so nominated shall be de- 
clared duly elected, and shall, as soon as con- 
venient, qualify before the Commander-in- 
Chief or an officer detailed for the purpose in 
the manner prescribed for officers- not present 
at a convention for formal installation. 

Section 228. Resignations. A National of- 
ficer desiring to resign from office shall tender 
a written resignation to the Commander-in- 
Chief, who is empowered to accept the same 
without reference to other authority. If the 
Commander-in-Chief desires to resign from 
office, he shall tender a written resignation to 
the Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief, who is 
empowered to accept the same without refer- 
ence to other authority. 

Article II. 

DUTIES OF NATIONAL OFFICERS. 

Section 229. General Provisions- In addi- 
tion to the duties prescribed for National of- 
ficers, as such, they will be governed by all the 
regulations in Part Four of these Rules and 
Regulations relating to Department officers 
and their duties with respect to all unattached 
Camps. 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS l8l 

Section 230. Commander-in-Chief. The 

duties of the Commander-in-Chief shall be as 
follows : 

a. In performing the functions of his of- 
fice, he shall issue such orders as may be neces- 
sary, such orders to be consistent with the 
laws of the National organization. 

b. He shall preside at all conventions of 
the National Encampment and at all meetings 
of the National Council of Administration. 

c. He shall appoint all National officers and 
committees and detail all National courts, com- 
missions, and boards the selection of which is 
not otherwise provided for. 

d. He shall serve as a member, ex officio, 
on all National committees and committees of 
the National Council of Administration. 

e. He shall make rulings on questions sub- 
mitted to him by Department and Provisional 
Division Commanders and unattached Camps 
involving the interpretation and application of 
the laws of the organization, and such rulings 
shall govern ; provided, however that an ap- 
peal from any such rulings may be taken to the 
Committee on Appeals and Grievances at the 
next stated convention of the National En- 
campment. He shall decide all questions of 
procedure and usage; provided, however, that 
in case such decision involves a suspension of 
any method of procedure established for the 



l82 NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

government of the organization, he shall report 
the same to the National Encampment for its 
approval or disapproval. 

t. He shall review the proceedings in all 
cases tried by courts-martial by him appoint- 
ed, and approve or disapprove their records, 
findings, and sentences. 

g. He shall review the proceedings in all 
cases tried by courts-martial appointed by De- 
partment Commanders wherein the sentence 
directed is that of dishonorable discharge, and 
approve or disapprove their records, findings, 
and sentences. 

h. He shall be the custodian of all bonds 
and securities, as trustee for the National or- 
ganization. 

i. He shall select and promulgate to the or- 
ganization a National countersign, to consist of 
not more than two words. A new countersign 
shall be issued by him at the beginning of each 
semi-annual term, for use during the ensuing 
term; provided, however, that he may change 
the same at any time when cause therefor 
arises. 

j. He shall countersign all warrants ap- 
proved by him, drawn by the Adjutant General 
for the payment of money from the funds of 
the National organization, being accountable 
therefor. 

k. He shall have the power to make such 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 183 

transfer of the duties of the officials serving 
at National Headquarters, one to the other, as 
conditions may require ; provided, however, 
that any such official w^ho is intrusted with 
the funds or property of the organization shall 
be bonded. 

1. He shall have the power to prescribe the 
officers and the manner of their selection for 
any Camp that may be formed at National 
Headquarters or at the Headquarters of any 
Department for the enrollment of members re- 
cruited in territory not proximate to a Camp, 
and to fix the amount of dues and fees to be 
paid by the members of such Camps. 

m. He shall, whenever a dispute shall arise 
as to the amount due National Headquarters 
from an unattached Camp for per capita tax or 
any fee or charge, decide as to the amount to 
be paid by the Camp, and upon payment of the 
amount by the Camp under protest, he shall 
refer the matter to the Committee on Finance 
for a hearing and if said committee shall de- 
cide that an injustice has been done, he shall 
return to the Camp such amount as the com- 
mittee shall declare to be in excess of the 
amount due. 

n. He shall see that the Adjutant General 
and the Quartermaster General appointed by 
him, unless they are continued in office by his 
successor, turn over to their successors in office 



184 NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

all funds and property of the organization for 
which they may be accountable, bein^ held re- 
sponsible for any delay on the part of these of- 
ficers in performing these duties in accordance 
with the provisions of the Rules and Regula- 
tions. 

o. He shall render to the stated convention 
of the National Encampment a complete report 
in writing of his administration, showing the 
condition of the organization in all material re- 
spects, which report shall include a summary of 
the reports previously furnished to him by the 
Adjutant General, the Quartermaster General, 
and the Judge Advocate General, and may 
contain such matters of interest and such re- 
commendations as he deems to be of value to 
the National Encampment. 

p. He shall exercise general supervision 
over the organization, and, in general, he shall 
perform such duties and exercise such powers 
as are prescribed for him in specific cases by the 
provisions of the Constitution and the Rules 
and Regulations relating thereto, and as may 
be prescribed for him by enactment of the Na- 
tional Encampment, and such as pertain to a 
chief executive officer. 

Section 231. Vice Commanders-in-Chief. 

The Vice Commanders-in-Chief shall assist the 
Commander-in-Chief bv counsel or in such 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 1 85 

other manner as he may direct, and, in case of 
his temporary inability, shall fill his office ac- 
cording to seniority. 

Section 232. Chairman Pro Tempore. In 

case of the absence of the Commander-in- 
Chief and both the Senior and Junior Vice 
Commanders-in-Chief from a convention of the 
National Encampment, a Past Commander-in- 
Chief shall be elected as presiding- officer for 
the convention and shall superintend the prep- 
aration of the printed record of the proceed- 
ings thereof. 

Section 233. Chief of Staff. The Chief of 
Staff shall perform such duties and have such 
powers as the Commander-in-Chief may dele- 
gate to him. 

Section 234. Adjutant General. The duties 
of the Adjutant General shall be as follov^'s: 

a. He shall be chief of the National Admin- 
istrative Bureau of Records, Orders, Corres- 
pondence, Revenue and Recruiting. 

b. He shall keep a journal of the proceed- 
ings of all conventions of the National En- 
campment and of all meetings of the National 
Council of Administration, attesting the same 
by his signature- 

c. He shall promulgate all orders, general 



1 86 NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

and special, and all circulars of the Comman- 
der-in-Chief. 

d. He shall under the direction of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, attend to all the official cor- 
respondence of National Headquarters. 

e. He shall submit all papers to the official 
scrutiny of the Commander-in-Chief, and 
carry out his directions respecting the same. 

f. He shall examine all reports received at 
National Headquarters and see that there are 
no errors therein or omissions therefrom, 
and that indorsements which subordinate offi- 
cers are required to make thereon and the sig- 
natures thereto attached are in the proper 
handwriting of such subordinate officers; pro- 
vided, however, that, with the approval of the 
Commander-in-Chief, he may waive technical 
errors and omissions and failure on the part 
of subordinate officers to comply with the pro- 
\isions of the Rules and Regulations whenever 
and wherever in his judgment, with the ap- 
proval of the Commander-in-Chief, the report 
or indorsement thereon is official and the in- 
terests of the organization will not suffer be- 
cause of the error, omission, or irregularity. He 
shall return such report to the subordinate of- 
ficer for correction, completion, proper indorse- 
ment, or signature in all cases where the in- 
terests of the organization appear to require 
correctness, completeness, personal indorse- 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 187 

ment, or personal signature of the subordinate 
officer. 

g. He shall refer all reports received and 
accepted by him to the proper officers respec- 
tively for attention and action thereon. 

h. He shall, under the direction of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, prepare all reports and re- 
turns of the National Encampment prescribed 
by authority, except such as the Rules and 
Regulations prescribe shall be prepared by 
some other officer. 

i. He shall prepare forms of all books and 
blanks required for use by the organization, 
subject to the approval of the Executive Com- 
mittee, except where a special enactment of 
the National Encampment provides otherwise. 

j. He shall issue all books and blanks for 
which no charge is made. 

k. He shall keep a copy of the rosters of the 
several Departments and Camps of the organ- 
ization, with the names and addresses of the 
Department Commanders, Department Adju- 
tants, Department Quartermasters, Comman- 
ders, Adjutants, and Quartermasters, 

1. He shall keep a list of applicants re- 
jected by Camps of the organization. 

m. He shall keep a list of all persons dis- 
honorably discharged from the organization, 
and shall publish semi-annually the names of 
such persons. 



t88 national officers Part 5 

n. He shall keep such books and records, 
not herein specifically mentioned and required, 
as the Executive Committee or the Comman- 
der-in-Chief may direct. 

o. He shall receive all moneys payable at 
National Headquarters, note them in a proper 
cash book and deposit them without delay in 
the name of the ''National Headquarters, 
United Spanish War Veterans," with such 
banking institution as has been designated by 
the Commander-in-Chief as the depository of 
its funds, transmitting- to the Quartermaster 
General a duplicate deposit slip stamped by 
the bank for each deposit made by him, imme- 
diately after the making of such deposit- 

p. He shall, under the direction of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, draw all warrants on the 
Quartermaster General, directing payments 
from the funds of the National organization, 
pursuant to the authority of the Rules and 
Regulations and specific enactments of the Na- 
tional Encampment; and he shall sign and pre- 
sent such warrants to the Commander-in- 
Chief for his approval and countersignature. 

q. He shall render a written financial state- 
ment semi-annually to the Commander-in- 
Chief, which shall be printed and distributed- 

r. He shall render in writing to the Audit- 
ing Committee a supplementary statement 
covering the period of time from the date of 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 189 

the semi-annual statement published immedi- 
ately prior to the convening of the stated con- 
vention of the National Encampment to the be- 
ginning of the last day of such stated conven- 
tion ; and subsequent to the rendering of such 
supplementary statement no money shall be 
received or paid out until after the incoming 
Commander-in-Chief shall have been duly in- 
stalled in office. 

s. He shall furnish to the Commander-in- 
Chief just prior to the time for holding the 
stated convention of the National Encamp- 
ment, a complete report in writing of the w^ork 
of his bureau during his term of office, which 
report shall include all data and statistics rela- 
tive to the condition of the organization which 
are on record, and a detailed statement of his 
receipts and payments on account of the or- 
ganization, together with its assets and liabil- 
ities so far as they are matters of record in his 
bureau. He shall also add such observations 
and recommendations as to the transaction of 
business in his bureau as he may consider to 
be of interest to the Commander-in-Chief. Said 
report shall be placed in the hands of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief on or before a day to be fixed 
by the Commander-in-Chief. 

t. He shall not appropriate any of the 
money of the National Encampment to his own 
use, as a loan or otherwise, and shall not lend 



igo NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

the whole or any part thereof to any person. 

u. He shall be the eustodian of all prop- 
erty of the National Encampment which is not 
intrusted to some other officer by the provi- 
sions of the Rules and Regulations or by en- 
actment of the National Encampment, and 
shall hold and dispose of the same under the 
direction of the Commander-in-Chief, or in the 
manner designated by the Rules and Regula- 
tions or by enactment of the National Encamp- 
ment, and turn over all property of the orgaur 
ization for which he may be accountable to his 
successor without delay. 

V. He shall perform all other clerical duties 
rendered necessary or desirable in the proper 
management of the business of his bureau and 
not specifically pertaining to another adminis- 
trative bureau. 

w. He shall act as National recruiting of- 
ficer, taking charge of extension work through- 
out the organization under the direction of the 
Commander-in-Chief, and shall keep and trans- 
mit to his successor in office a record in care- 
ful detail of all work in recruiting accomplished 
or attempted by him during his term of office, 
which record shall be incorporated in his re- 
port to the Commander-in-Chief to be fur- 
nished just prior to the time for holding the 
stated convention of the National Encamp- 
ment. 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS IQI 

X. He shall give bond, with an indemnity 
company as surety, for the faithful performance 
of his duties, in such amount as the Comman- 
der-in-Chief and the Committee on Finance 
shall fix, and with such indemnity company 
as surety as they shall approve, the amount of 
said bond to be not less than $5,000. 

Section 235. Quartermaster General. The 
duties of the Quartermaster General shall be 
as prescribed by the Commander-in-Chief and 
in general as follows : 

a. He shall be chief of the National Admin- 
istrative Bureau of Disbursements and Sup- 
plies. 

b. He shall receive from the Adjutant Gen- 
eral duplicate deposit slips stamped by the 
bank of all money deposited in the name of 
"National Headquarters, United Spanish 
War Veterans," and shall charge the amounts 
of such deposits on his books of account as 
cash received. 

c. He shall be the custodian of all funds 
of the National organization, except when 
otherwise provided by enactment of the Na- 
tional Encampment, and shall pay out money 
only in accordance with the Rules and Regu- 
lations or enactments of the National Encamp- 
ment, upon warrants drawn by the Adjutant 



192 NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

General and countersig^ned by the Comman- 
der-in-Chief ordering payment. 

d. He shall keep books of account, in 
which shall be entered in detail all receipts to 
and disbursements from the general fund ; and 
in like manner he shall keep separate books 
of account for each special fund of which he is 
the custodian. 

e. He shall, under the direction of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, contract for and purchase all 
books, blanks, badges, buttons, and other sup- 
plies for the use of the organization, and shall 
be the custodian of all such supplies which are 
kept for sale by National Headquarters. 

f. He shall issue all supplies for which a 
charge is made and shall charge therefor such 
prices respectively as shall be in accordance 
with a schedule of prices fixed by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief and approved by the Com- 
mittee on Finance. 

g. He shall keep an account with each De- 
partment and with each Camp to which sup- 
plies may be sold direct, charging such Depart- 
ments and Camps, respectively, with all 
amounts due for such supplies and giving 
proper credit for payments made on account 
thereof. 

h. He shall furnish from time to time, at 
the request of the Commander-in-Chief, a 



Art. 2 DrxiRs of officers 193 

statement of all funds and supplies in his 
hands or under his control. 

i. He shall render a written statement semi- 
annually to the Commander-in-Chief, showing 
the cost of all supplies and the expense of is- 
suing the same, and all other items properly 
charged against the conduct of his bureau, to- 
gether with the amounts received for supplies 
issued, the value of supplies on hand, and of 
other items properly credited to the conduct of 
his bureau, and showing the profit and loss 
made or sustained. 

j. He shall render a written supplemen- 
tary statement to the Auditing Committee, 
covering the period of time from the date of 
the semi-annual statement rendered immedi- 
ately prior to the convening of the stated con- 
vention of the National Encampment to the 
beginning of the last day of such stated con- 
vention ; subsequent to the rendering of which 
supplementary statement no supplies shall be 
bought or sold until after the incoming Com- 
mander-in-Chief shall have been duly installed 
in offict. 

k. He shall furnish to the Commander-in- 
Chief, just prior to the time for holding the 
stated convention of the National Encamp- 
ment, a complete report in writing of the work 
of his bureau during his term of oiifice, which 
report shall exhibit all the data required in 



194 NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

sub-section h of this section, all receipts and 
payments by him on account of the general 
fund of the organization and of any special 
funds of which he is the custodian, and all as- 
sets and liabilities which are matters of record 
in his bureau, tabulated in such a manner as to 
enable the Commander-in-Chief to render to 
the National Encampment a concise statement 
of the financial condition of the organization. 
He shall also add such observations and recom- 
mendations as to the transaction of business 
in his bureau as he may consider to be of in- 
terest to the Commander-in-Chief. Said re- 
port shall be placed in the hands of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief on or before a day to be fixed 
by the Commander-in-Chief. 

1. He shall turn over to his successor in of- 
fice all funds, supplies, and property belonging 
to the National organization for which he may 
be accountable, together wnth all books of ac- 
count, vouchers, and other records and papers 
pertaining to his bureau. 

m. He shall not appropriate any of the 
money of the National organization to his own 
use, as a loan or otherwise, and shall not lend 
the whole or any part thereof to any person. 

n. He shall perform all other clerical duties 
rendered necessary or desirable in the proper 
management of the business of his bureau and 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 195 

not specifically pertaining to another adminis- 
trative bureau. 

o. He shall give bond, with an indemnity 
company as surety, for the faithful perform- 
ance of his duties, in such sum as the Com- 
mander-in-Chief and the Committee on Finance 
shall fix, and with such indemnity company 
as surety as they shall approve, said bond to 
be in the sum of at least $5,000. 

Section 236. Inspector General. The duties 
of the Inspector General shall be as follows: 

a. He shall be chief of the National Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Inspection. 

b. He shall make or supervise the making 
of all inspections of Department Headquar- 
ters and Camps determined upon by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, and, with the approval of 
the Commander-in-Chief, he may require De- 
partment Inspectors to make such additional 
inspections of Camps within their Depart- 
ments respectively as he may desire- 

c. He shall supervise the work of Depart- 
ment Inspectors, and receive and verify their 
reports. 

d. He shall furnish to the Commander-in- 
Chief just prior to the time for holding the 
stated convention of the National Encamp- 
ment a complete report in writing of the work 
of his bureau during his term of office, which 



T96 N.\'iioN.\r, oFFFCERS Part 5 

report shall include an abstract of all inspec- 
tions made during his term of office and a con- 
solidated tabulation of data of all inspection 
reports received by him in accordance with the 
Rules and Rep-ulations. 

e. He shall furnish special reports upon any 
subject that may be required of him by the 
Commander-in-Chief, the National Encamp- 
ment, or the National Council of Administra- 
tion. 

f. He shall require Department and Camp 
officers to place at his disposal, for the pur- 
pose of inspection, all books, papers, accounts, 
records, and proceeding's of their Department 
or Camp pertaining to the organization. 

Section 237. Judge Advocate General. The 
duties of the Judge Advocate General shall 
be as follows : 

a. He shall be chief of the National Admin- 
istrative Bureau of Law and Justice. 

b. He shall assist the Commander-in-Chief, 
the National Encampment, the National Coun- 
cil of Administration, National committees 
and committees of the National Council 
of Administration, in interpreting and apply- 
ing the laws of the National organization. 

c He shall furnish his opinion and advice 
as to the law of the land w^hen requested so 
to do by the Commander-in-Chief, the Na- 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 197 

tional Encampment, or the National Council of 
Administration. 

d. He shall examine all records of courts- 
martial and courts of inquiry coming before 
the Commander-in-Chief for review, and advise 
the latter as to any technical irregularity in 
the proceedings. 

e. He shall, when so directed by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, examine and consider all ap- 
peals from decisions of Department Comman- 
ders, after hearing, on complaints from Camps 
or comrades, on questions involving interpreta- 
tion of law only and render an opinion there- 
on to the Commander-in-Chief. 

f. He shall examine and consider all ques- 
tions of law referred to him by the Commit- 
tee on Appeals and Grievances and render an 
opinion to said Committee in regard to such 
questions of law. 

g. He shall examine all by-laws and 
amendments to by-laws of Departments and 
unattached Camps that mav be submitted to 
him by the Commander-in-Chief, see that thev 
are consistent with the laws of the National 
oreanization. and advise the Commander-in- 
Chief in reeard thereto. 

h. He shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his bureau as may be. from time to 
time, required of him. 

i. He shall furnish to the Commander-in- 



198 NATIONAL OFFICERS Part 5 

Chief just prior to the time for holding the 
stated convention of the National Encamp- 
ment, a complete report in writing of the 
work of his bureau during his term of ofhce, 
which report shall include a digest of^ the 
opinions furnished by him on questions of the 
interpretation and application of the laws of 
the National organization, the by-laws of De- 
partments and Camps, and of enactments of 
the National Encampment, Department En- 
campments, and Camps. He shall also add 
such observations and recommendations as to 
the laws of the organization as he may con- 
sider to be of interest to the Commander-in- 
Chief- Said report shall be placed in the 
hands of the Commander-in-Chief on or before 
a day to be fixed by the Commander-in-Chief. 

Section 238. Surgeon General The duties 
of the Surgeon General shall be as follows: 

a. He shall be chief of the National Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of Charity and Relief and 
is authorized to collect and compile health 
statistics showing the physical effects of war 
service upon the members of the organization. 

b. He shall render to the stated conven- 
tion of the National Encampment a report in 
writing, which shall consist of a consolidation 
of the reports of the relief w^ork accomplished 
by the organization during his term of office. 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS IQQ 

and add to the report such health statistics as 
he may have received from the subordinate 
officers of his bureau, and such observations 
and recommendations as in his judgment will 
be of value in the work of the bureau. 

c. He shall, when requested, give such pro- 
fessional information and advice to the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, the National Encampment, 
and the National Council of Administration as 
may be required to enable them to properly 
carry out the purposes of the organization. 

d. He shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his bureau as may be, from time to 
time, required of him. 

Section 239. Chaplain-in-Chief. The du- 
ties of the Chaplain-in-Chief shall be as fol- 
lows : 

a- He shall be chief of the National Admin- 
istrative Bureau of Devotion and Morality. 

b. He shall conduct all devotional exercises 
at conventions of the National Encampment. 

c. He shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his bureau as may be, from time to 
time, required of him. 

Section 240. National Patriotic Instructor. 

The duties of the National Patriotic Instruc- 
tor shall be as follows : 

a. He shall be chief of the National Ad- 



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NATIONAL OFFiCEKS Part 5 



ministrative Bureau of Patriotic Instruction 
and Memorials. 

b. He shall, under the direction of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, plan and superintend the 
work of patriotic instruction and observance 
throughout the organization, and prepare 
forms for the required reports of Department 
Patriotic Instructors and the Patriotic Instruc- 
tors of Camps. 

c. He shall render to the stated conven- 
tion of the National Encampment a report in 
writing, which shall consist of a consolidation 
of the reports of the work in patriotic instruc- 
tion accomplished, and memorial exercises, 
observances and dedications held by the or- 
ganization during his term of office, and add 
to the report such observations and recom- 
mendations as in his judgment will be of value 
in the work of the bureau. 

Section 241. Provost Marshal. The duties 
of the Provost Marshal shall be as follows : 

a. He shall act as Sergeant-at-Arms at all 
conventions of the National Encampment. 

b. He shall see that none but members of 
the National Encampment participate in the 
business of conventions of the National En- 
campment, and to that end shall inform him.self 
as to the names and identity of the comrades 
who are members thereof. 



Art. 2 DUTIES OF OFFICERS 201 

c. He shall, with the approval of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, appoint as many assistants 
pro tempore as he deems necessary to enable 
him to maintain order at any convention of the 
National Encampment. 

d. He shall perform such other duties as 
may be required of him by the Commander- 
in-Chief or by enactment of the National En- 
campment. 

Section 242. National Historian. The du- 
ties of the National Historian shall be as fol- 
lows : 

a. Ele shall be chief of the National Ad- 
ministrative Bureau of History. 

b. He shall render to the stated conven- 
tion of the National Encampment a report in 
writing- which shall consist of a consolidation 
of the historical and statistical reports re- 
ceived by him from the Department Histo- 
rians and unattached Camps durin^T^ his term of 
office, and add to the report such observations 
and recommendations as in his judg-ment will 
be of value in the work of the bureau. 

c. He shall be the custodian of such books, 
manuscripts, pamphlets, relics, and like pos- 
sessions relating- to the Spanish American War 
nnd the incidental campaigns, belonging to the 
National onranization, as the Commander-in- 
Chief mav direct. 



202 NATIONAL COMMITTEES Part 5 

d. He shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his bureau as may be, from time to 
time, required of him- 

Section 243. Assistant Adjutant General. 

The Assistant Adjutant General shall perform 
such duties as the Commander-in-Chief or the 
Adjutant General may direct. 

Section 244. Assistant Quartermaster Gen- 
eral. It shall be the duty of the Assistant 
Quartermaster General to assist in the work at 
National Headquarters in such manner as the 
Commander-in-Chief or the Quartermaster 
General may direct. 

Section 245. Other National Officers. All 

other National officers, including the Aides-de- 
Camp on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, 
shall perform such duties as may be required 
of them by the Commander-in-Chief or by en- 
actment of the National Encampment. 



Article HI. 
NATIONAL COMMITTEES. 

Section 246. Standing Committees. a. 

There shall be the following standing commit- 
tees of the National organization, namely : 
An Executive Committee. 



Art. 3 COMMITTEES 203 

A Committee on Appeals and Grievances- 

A Committee on Finance. 

A Committee on Legislation. 

b. There shall be the following standing 
committees of the National Encampment, 
namely : 

A Committee on Credentials. 

A Committee on Enactments. 

A Committee on Resolutions. 

An Auditing Committee. 

Section 247. How Appointed. All mem- 
bers of standing committees, except those who 
serve by virtue of their official positions, shall 
be appointed by the Commander-in-Chief, ex- 
cept as provided for the Committee on Ap- 
peals and Grievances in section 249 hereof. The 
Committee on Credentials shall be appointed 
prior to a convention of the National Encamp- 
ment, and the Committee on Enactments and 
the Committee on Resolutions shall be ap- 
pointed prior to or during such convention 
and shall serve until the adjournment with- 
out day thereof. All other standing commit- 
tees shall be appointed as soon as practicable 
after the installation of the Commander-in- 
Chief, and shall serve until the adjournment 
without day of the next succeeding stated con- 
v^ention. When not otherwise prescribed, the 



204 NATIONAL COMMITTEES Part 5 

Commander-in-Chief shall designate the chair- 
man of each standing committee. 

Section 248. Executive Committee- The 
Executive Committee shall consist of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief as chairman, the Senior Vice 
Commander-in-Chief, the Junior Vice Com- 
mander-in-Chief, and two other comrades. It 
shall be the duty of the Executive Committee 
to act in an advisory capacity to the Com- 
mander-in-Chief. 

Section 249. Committee on Appeals and 
Grievances- The Committee on Appeals and 
Grievances shall consist of not less than live 
nor more than seven comrades, and shall be 
aopointed and constituted as provided in sec- 
tion 2, article VI of the Constitution. When- 
ever practicable one or more Past Comman- 
ders-in-Chief shall be appointed to the com- 
mittee and one of them designated as its chair- 
man. In accordance with the provisions of 
section 2, article VI, of the Constitution, and 
subject to the limitations prescribed therein 
as to the reversal or rejection of its decisions 
by the National Encampment, the Committee 
on Appeals and Grievances shall act as the 
court of final resort of the organization, and 
shall hear and determine all appeals from deci- 
sions denying new trial, and all matters re- 



Art. 3 COMMITTEES 205 

f erred to it by the National Encampment, the 
Commander-in-Chief, the National Council 
of Administration, or a Department Com- 
mander on complaints from Department En- 
campments, Councils, Camps or comrades, 
and shall perform all of the duties prescribed 
for it by the laws of the National organiza- 
tion. Exclusive of meetings called by the 
chairman of the committee while a conven- 
tion of the National Encampment is in ses- 
sion, the committee shall not be convened 
more than twice in any one year, in which 
latter event it shall meet only by order of 
the Commander-in-Chief, who shall designate 
the place of such meeting. Should any mem- 
ber of this committee fail to be present at a 
convention of the National Encampment, the 
Commander-in-Chief shall vacate his ap- 
pointment, and forthwith appoint a comrade to 
fill the vacancy in the manner provided for 
the original appointment. 

Section 250. Committee on Finance. The 

Committee on Finance shall consist of three 
members, each of whom shall be a Past Com- 
mander-in-Chief. It shall be the duty of the 
Committee on Finance to pass upon and au- 
thorize such disbursements as are made sub- 
ject to their approval by the Rules and Regu- 
lations or bv enactment of the National En- 



206 NATIONAL COMMITTEES Part 5 

campment, and, in concurrence with the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, to regulate the price of sup- 
plies kept for sale by National Headquarters, 
to fix the amount and to approve the sureties 
of all bonds required to be furnished by Na- 
tional officers for the security of the organiza- 
tion. 

Section 251. Committee on Legislation. 
The Committee on Legislation shall consist of 
five or more comrades. It shall be the duty 
of the Committee on Legislation to make all 
proper efforts to secure the enactment, by the 
Congress of the United States, of such public 
legislation as may be commended to it by the 
National Encampment, the National Council of 
Administration, or the Commander-in-Chief, 
and to co-operate with the Committees on 
Legislation of the several Departments in all 
matters in which its assistance may be invoked, 
and which are approved by the Commander- 
in-Chief. The committee shall render to the 
stated convention of the National Encamp- 
ment a complete report in writing of the work 
accomplished during its term of service, and 
shall add such observations and recommenda- 
tions as may be deemed to be of assistance to 
the National Encampment. 

Section 252. Committee on Credentials. 

The Committee on Credentials shall consist of 



Art. 3 COMMITTEES 20/ 

the Adjutant General as chairman, and two 
or more other comrades. It shall be the duty 
of the Committee on Credentials to be in at- 
tendance prior to the opening of the conven- 
tion of the National Encampment for which it 
shall have been appointed, to examine and re- 
port to the National Encampment at the open- 
. ing of the convention upon the credentials of 
the members present, and to submit with its 
report a list of the duly accredited officers, 
past officers, and delegates present and entitled 
to participate in the convention. The commit- 
tee shall examine and report upon the creden- 
tials of members who present themselves after 
the convention is opened, and in case of a con- 
test for a seat therein, shall hear the parties 
and report its findings and recommendations to 
the convention. 

Section 253. Committee on Enactments. 

The Committee on Enactments shall consist of 
fifteen comrades. It shall be the duty of the 
committee to consider all proposed enact- 
ments, whether amendments to the Constitu- 
tion, to the Rules and Regulations, to the 
Ritual, to the ceremonies prescribed in the 
Book of Ceremonies, to forms of procedure, 
and all proposed special enactments ; and to 
report its recommendations thereon to the Na- 
tional Encampment. 



208 NAT[()XAL COMMITTEES Part 5 

Section 254. Committee on Resolutions 

The Committee on Resolutions shall consist 
of fifteen comrades. It shall be the duty of 
the Committee on Resolutions to consider all 
resolutions and other propositions introduced 
at a convention of the National Encampment, 
which do not involve amendments to the Con- 
stitution, to the Rules and Reg-ulations. to the 
Ritual, to the ceremonies prescribed in the 
Book of Ceremonies, or to the forms of pro- 
cedure, and to report its recommendations 
thereon to the National Encampment. The 
committee may also originate resolutions upon 
matters that it deems of interest to the organ- 
ization, and report the same to the National 
Encampment. 

Section 255. Auditing Committee. The 

Auditin<>- Committee shall consist of the Junior 
Vice Commander-in-Chief as chairman, and 
two other comrades. It shall be the duty of 
the Auditin,^: Committee to audit, or cause to 
be audited under its supervision and direction, 
the books of account and vouchers of the Ad- 
jutant General and the Quartermaster General 
at the expiration of their respective terms o\ 
office ; and for this purpose the committee shall 
be furnished with a copy of the semi-animnl 
return of each of these officers broug-ht up to 
the date of the final balanciner of accounts hv 



Art. 3 COMMITTEES 209 

means of a supplementary report. The com- 
mittee shall employ a professional accountant 
to assist it in making its examination, and such 
accountant shall be paid for his services out 
of the funds of the National organization. For 
the purpose of making this audit, all books, 
vouchers, and other papers pertaining to the 
finances of the National organization shall be 
turned over to the committee at its request and 
the public accountant shall examine in detail 
the sources from which per capita and all other 
income have been received. The committee 
shall satisfy itself that the funds of the Na- 
tional oreranization are deposited with reputa- 
ble banking institutions in the name of the or- 
ganization, that all disbursements have been 
made in accordance with the Rules and Regu- 
lations and shall require the accounting officers 
havinq" moneys of the National organization 
in their possession, and not on deposit, to ex- 
hibit the same in cash. The Auditinir Commit- 
tee shall also verifv the supplies and other as- 
sets in the custody of the Adjutant General 
and the Quartermaster General and require a 
statement of all outstanding debts of National 
Headquarters and an estimate of all monevs 
due and unpaid to National Headquarters. In 
case anv member of the Auditing Committee 
should be unable to attend the stated conven- 
tion of the National Encampment, he shall sea- 



2IO NATIONAL COMMITTEES Part 5 

sonably notify the Commander-in-Chief to 
that effect, and the Commander-in-Chief shall 
declare his place on the committee vacant and 
appoint to fill the vacancy a comrade who is 
present at such convention ; provided, how- 
ever, that such action shall be necessary, in the 
opinion of the Commander-in-Chief, to insure a 
proper audit of the accounts. The Auditing 
Committee shall submit its report in writing 
to the incoming Commander-in-Chief, who 
shall transmit a copy therof to his predecessor 
in ofBce, or the officer entitled to receive the 
same, for insertion into the proceedings of the 
stated convention of the National Encamp- 
ment. The Commander-in-Chief may, at any 
time when in his opinion the interests of the 
organization demand it, direct the Public Ac- 
countant employed by the Auditing Commit- 
tee to examine and report on the accounts of 
the Adjutant General and the Quartermaster 
General. 

Section 256. Special Committees. The 

Commander-in-Chief shall appoint all special 
committees authorized or directed by enact- 
ment of the National Encampment unless the 
manner of their selection is otherwise directed 
bv the enactment which creates them ; and the 
Commander-in-Chief may, at anv time when in 
his discretion the interests of the organization 



Art. 3 COMMITTEES 211 

demand it, appoint special committees and sub- 
mit to them for consideration matters affect- 
ing the economy and welfare of the organiza- 
tion which are not included within the scope 
of any standing committee. When not other- 
wise prescribed in the enactment establishing 
a special committee the Commander-in-Chief 
shall designate the chairman thereof. 

Section 257. Meetings of Committees. Sub- 
ject to the specific provisions hereinbefore pre- 
scribed as to the meetings of particular com- 
mittees, all committees, standing and special, 
may meet at any convenient time and place at 
the call of their respective chairmen, provided 
that no expense to the organization is thereby 
incurred ; and the Commander-in-Chief may, 
by his order, direct any and all committees to 
convene, on his own initiative, or on applica- 
tion of their respective chairmen, in which case 
he shall specify or approve the time, place, 
and duration of the meeting and authorize the 
chairman to issue the call. The reasonable 
expenses of members of committees assembled 
in meeting, by order of or with the approval 
of the Commander-in-Chief, shall be paid out 
of the funds of the National organization, as 
shall also be paid the necessary charges for a 
place of meeting, stationery, clerical assistance, 
and other incidental expenses. 



Siil)-Parl I\)iir 

NATIONAL FINANCE 



SUMMARY IXDKX 

Page 

ART. I. FUNDS. 212 

Sec. 2S8. General Fund: How Constituted. 212 

Sec. 259. Special Funds. 213 

Sec. 260. Custody of Funds. 213 

ART. II. REMUNERATION OF OFFICERS AND 

COMRADES. 213 

Sec. 261. General Prohibition. 213 

Sec. 262. Certain Salaries Authorized. 214 

Sec. 263. Special Services. 214 

Sec. 264. Reimbursement for Expenses. 215 

ART. III. DISBURSEMENTS: PROHIBITION. 215 

Sec. 265. Payments from the General Fund. 215 

Sec. 266. Payments from Special Funds. 218 



Article I. 
FUNDS. 

Section 258. General Fund: How Consti- 
tuted. All money received by National Head- 
quarters, from whatever source, not raised or 
solicited for a specific purpose, shall consti- 
tute the general fund. 

[212] 



Art. I lUNDs 213 

Section 259 Special Funds. The National 
Encampment may, from time to time, estab- 
lish special funds for specific purposes. A spe- 
cial fund may be either permanent or tempo- 
rary, and shall consist of all sums received 
with the understanding, express or implied, 
that they are to be devoted to the purpose in- 
dicated, together with any amounts that may 
be transferred by appropriation to such special 
funds from the general fund. 

Section 260. Custody of Funds. Separate 
accounts shall be kept of the general fund and 
of each special fund, and, so far as possible, 
distinct funds shall be deposited in separate 
bank accounts. The Quartermaster General 
shall be the custodian of the general fund and 
of all special funds except those which have 
been committed to the custody of some other 
'officer, committee, or comrade by enactment 
of the National Encampment. 

Article II. 

REMUNERATION OF OFFICERS AND 
COMRADES. 

Section 261. General Prohibition. No of- 
ficer or comrade shall receive, cither directly 
or indirectly, from the funds of the National 
organization any compensation in the nature 



214 NATIONAL FINANCE Part 5 

of salary or wages for services rendered or duty 
performed on behalf of the organization, un- 
less such compensation is expressly authorized 
by these Rules and Regulations, or by en- 
actment of the National Encampment. 

Section 262. Certain Salaries Authorized. 
The Adjutant General, the Quartermaster 
General, the Assistant Adjutant General, the 
Assistant Quartermaster General, and such 
other persons, whether comrades or otherwise, 
as may be employed in clerical work at Na- 
tional Headquarters, but shall receive as 
compensation for their services such 
sums in the nature of salary or wages as the 
Commander-in-Chief, with the approval of the " 
Committee on Finance, shall, from time to 
time,' determine ; provided, however, that the 
salary of the Adjutant General shall not be 
less than fifty dollars per month. 

Section 263. Special Services. The Com-^' 
mander-in-Chief may employ one or more ste- 
nographers at conventions of the National En- 
campment and on such other occasions as may, 
in his opinion, be of sufficient importance to 
render a verbatim report of the proceedings 
desirable. Such stenographers, and all ex- 
pert accountants who may be employed by the 
Auditing Committee under the provisions of 
these Rules and Regulations, whether com- 



Art. 3 DISBURSEMENTS 21 5 

rades or not, shall receive compensation for 
their services from the funds of the National 
organization, in accordance with the rates 
established by the customs of their professions 
for such services. 

Section 264. Reimbursement for Expenses. 

Any ofificer or comrade who shall be compelled 
to incur expenses in the performance of duties 
imposed by these Rules and Regulations, by 
enactment of the National Encampment, by 
vote of the National Council of Administra- 
tion, or by order of the Commander-in-Chief, 
shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses 
actually and properly incurred in the perform- 
ance of such duties, provided that he shall ren- 
der an itemized statement of such expenses to 
the Adjutant General, w^ho shall submit the 
same to the Commander-in-Chief for approval 
before payment. 

Article III. 

DISBURSEMENTS: PROHIBITION. 

Section 265. Payments from the General 
Fund. a. The Commander-in-Chief shall or- 
der payments from the general fund in accord- 
ance with the enactments of the National En- 
campment. Such payment shall be made by 
voucher check, which check shall be signed by 



2i6 xATioxAL FINANCE Part 5 

the Adjutant General and the Quartermaster 
General, and countersigned by the Comman- 
der-in-Chief. 

b. The Commander-in-Chief shall have the 
power to order pa3mients from the general fund 
at his own discretion, and without reference to 
other authority, for the follow^ing purposes : 

First. For all current expenses of National 
Headquarters incurred in the ordinary course 
of business, such as rent, postage, stationery, 
printing, office incidentals, office equipment, 
temporary clerical assistance, and similar 
items- 

Second. For his own traveling expenses on 
such journeys as he shall deem to be for the 
interests and welfare of the organization. 

Third. For the traveling expenses of Na- 
tional officers and other persons on such jour- 
neys as may be necessary in discharging the 
duties of their offices or as may be required of 
them by the Commander-in-Chief. 

Fourth. For the expenses of committees, 
standing or special, incurred in obedience to 
the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, includ- 
ing the traveling expenses of members of such 
committees in ^oing to. remaining at. and re- 
turning from all meetings ordered or author- 
ized bv the Commander-in-Chief. 

Fifth. For the expense incurred by the In- 
spector General, the Judge Advocate General, 



Art. 3 DISBURSEMENTS _M 7 

the Surgeon General, the National Patriotic 
Instructor, and the National Historian, for 
postage, stationery, typewriting and inciden- 
tals, not to exceed $50.00 per annum in each 
case. 

c. The Commander-in-Chief shall have the 
power to order payments from the general 
fund, having first obtained the approval of the 
Committee on Finance, for the following pur- 
poses: 

First. For the expenses of con\'entions of 
the National Encampment. 

Second. For the reception and entertain- 
ment of official guests at National Headquar- 
ters or at conventions of the National Encamp- 
ment. 

Third. For the purchase of supplies in bulk 
to be kept for sale at National Headquarters. 

Fourth. For salaries and wages of such offi- 
cers and other persons as may be regularly em- 
ployed at National Headquarters. 

d. With the approval of the National Coun- 
cil of Administration the Commander-in-Chief 
may employ organizers and order payments 
from the general fund to such organizers for 
personal expenses, and expenses incurred by 
them in discharging their duties agreeably to 
the instructions of the Commander-in-Chief; 
provided, however, that no person shall be em- 
ployed as an organizer unless he is a comrade 



2l8 NATIONAL FINANCE Part 5 

in good standing. The Commander-in-Chief 
may order payments from the general fund for 
the carrying out of measures approved by the 
National Council of Administration and adopt- 
ed for the extension and maintenance of the 
organization. 

e. Disbursements from the general fund for 
purposes other than those hereinbefore men- 
tioned shall be authorized only in accordance 
with enactments of the National Encampment- 
Section 266. Payments from Special Funds. 
Disbursements from special funds shall be 
made strictly in accordance with the provisions 
to that effect set forth in the enactments of 
the National Encampment establishing such 
funds. The power to direct expenditures from 
a special fund shall be conferred by the en- 
actment creating it upon the Commander-in- 
Chief, the National Council of Administration, 
the committee, or the officer, as the case ma}^ 
be, who is charged thereby with carrying out 
the object or purpose of the enactment. The 
une'xpended balance of a special fund, when the 
object for which it was established shall have 
been fully accomplished, shall revert to the 
general fund unless the enactment which cre- 
ated said special fund provides otherwise. 



Part Six 
ADMINISTRATION 





SUMMARY INDEX 


Page 


RT. I DISCIPLINE. 


221 


Sec. 267. 


Enforcement of the Rules and Regu- 






lations. 


221 


Sec. 268. 


Code of Discipline. 


222 


Sec. 269. 


Penalties. 


231 


Sec. 270. 


Essential Features. 


232 


Sec. 271. 


Liability as to Commander-in-Chief. 


232 


Sec. 272. 


Limitation. 


232 


Sec. 273. 


Second Trial Barred. 


233 


Sec. 274. 


Courts and Their Jurisdiction. 


233 


Sec. 275. 


Camp Courts-Martial. 


235 


Sec. 276. 


Eligibility to Serve on General 






Courts-Martial. 


236 


Sec. 277. 


Eligibility to Serve on Camp Courts- 






Martial. 


237 


Sec. 278. 


Rules Governing Courts. 


237 


Sec. 279. 


Charges and Specifications. 


237 


Sec. 280. 


How Preferred. 


238 


Sec. 281. 


Examination and Investigation of 






Charges. 


243 


Sec. 282. 


Further Action on Charges. 


244 


Sec. 283. 


Disapproval of Charges. 


245 


Sec. 284. 


Notice to Accused. 


246 


Sec. 285. 


Right to Counsel. 


247 


Sec. 286. 


Right to Challenge. 


247 


Sec. 287. 


Pleas. 


247 



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Page 

Sec. 288. Witnesses. 248 

Sec. 289. Testimony. 249 

Sec. 290. Accused Not to be Compelled to Testify. 249 

Sec. 291. Evidence in Certain Cases. 

Sec. 292. Review of Record. 

Sec. 293. Proceedings on Review. 

Sec. 294. Promulgation of Record. 

Sec. 295. Imposition and Execution of Sentence. 

Sec. 296. Appeals from Camp Courts-Martial. 

Sec. 297. New Trial. 

Sec. 298. Courts of Inquiry, 

Sec. 299. Officers in Arrest. 

ART. II. IMPEACHMENT OF THE COMMAN- 
DER-IN-CHIEF. 
Sec. 300. How Commenced. 
Sec. 301. Preliminary Proceedings. 
Sec. 302. How Tried. 
Sec. 303. Conviction and Sentence. 
Sec. 304. Provision for Certain Cases. 

ART. III. RANK AND PRECEDENCE. 

Sec. 305. Order of Lineal Rank. 

Sec. 306. Seniority of Officers. 

Sec. 307. Past Rank Defined. 

Sec. 308. Incidents 'of Past Rank. 

Sec. 309. Courtesies to Be Accorded Past Officers. 

Sec. 310. Precedence among Departments. 

Sec. 311. Precedence among Camps. 

Sec. 312. Order in Processions. 

ART. IV. FORMS AND CEREMONIES. 
Sec. 313. Parades. 
Sec. 314. Titles of Address. 

ART. V. ORDERS AND CIRCULARS. 
Sec. 315. Effect of Orders. 



Art. I nrsciPLiNE 221 

Page 

Sec. 316. How Issued. 270 

Sec. 317. To Whom to Be Sent. 271 

Sec. 318. When to Take Effect. 272 

Sec. 319. Style of Orders and Circulars. 273 

ART. VI. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 274 

Sec. 320. How Conducted. 274 

Sec. 321. Official Titles to Be Used. 274 

Sec. 322. Remittances. 275 

Sec. 323. Mailing Address. 275 

Sec. 324. Style of Communications. 275 

ART. VII. SUPPLIES 276 

Sec. 325. Official Supplies. 276 

Sec. 326. Gratuitous Issues. 276 

Sec. 327. Sales of Supplies. 276 

Sec. 328. Discounts. 277 



Article I. 

DISCIPLINE. 

Section 267. Enforcement of the Rules and 
Regulations. The Code of Discipline is estab- 
lished for the purpose of providing a means of 
enforcing^ obedience to the Rules and Reg^ula- 
tions of the org"anization. Courts-martial have 
jurisdiction only over such offenses as affect 
the interests of the organization. Being con- 
stituted for the purpose of punishing com- 
rades for violations of the Code of Discipline, 
and for no other purpose, they should not be 
used to settle quarrels or disputes between 
members, nor should they be used where the 



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charges preferred, although technically within 
the letter of the Code, are manifestly the re- 
sult of malice or spite. An officer empowered 
to investigate charges and to order courts-mar- 
tial should refuse to consider charges which 
are manifestly due to personal rancor,^ and 
should never order a trial unless in his opinion 
the conviction or acquittal of the accused will 
promote the best interests of the organization. 

Section 268. Code of Discipline Offenses 
against the United Spanish War Veterans, 
for w^hich the offender shall be liable to prose- 
cution and punishment, shall consist in viola- 
tions of the following Code of Discipline; viz.: 

Article I. 

Any officer or comrade who shall malici- 
ously, or recklessly and without probable 
cause, charge another officer or comrade with 
malfeasance in office, or with improper conduct 
degrading to his reputation as a comrade shall 
be dishonorably discharged, or suffer such 
other penalty as a court-martial may direct 

Article 11. 

Any officer or comrade who shall be know- 
ingly and intentionally guilty of an act con- 
trary to or forbidden by the laws of the Na- 
tional organization, or the by-laws of his 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 223 

Department or Camp, or an enactment of his 
Department Encampment, shall be dishonor- 
ably discharged, or suffer such other penalty as 
a court-martial may direct, unless the penalty 
for his oft'ense is specifically prescribed in the 
law violated, in which case he shall, upon con- 
viction, suffer the prescribed penalty. 

Article III. 

Any offfcer or comrade who wilfully disobeys 
a lawful order from a superior officer shall be 
dishonorably discharged, or suffer such other 
penalty as a court-martial may direct. 

Article IV, 

Any officer or comrade who shall be guilty 
of disloyalty to the United States of America 
shall, upon conviction thereof by a court- 
martial, be dishonorably discharged. 

Article V, 

Any officer or comrade, being in the military 
or naval service of the United States of 
America, who deserts the same, or is guilty of 
any other scandalous oft'ense against military 
law and discipline, shall, upon conviction there- 
of by a court-martial convened under the pro- 
visions of the Rules and Regulations of the 



224 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

United Spanish War \^eterans, although he 
may not have been brought to trial before a 
military or naval court, be dishonorably dis- 
charged from the United Spanish War 

\^ETERANS. 

Article VI. 

Any officer or comrade who uses contemp- 
tuous or disrespectful words against the Presi- 
dent of the United States of America, or other 
civil magistrate, or against the Congress or 
courts of law, shall be required by the Com- 
mander of his Camp to make public retraction 
at a meeting thereof ; and if he refuses so to 
do, he shall be dishonorably discharged, or 
suffer such other penalty as a court-martial 
may direct. 

Article VII. 

Any officer or comrade who shall be guilty 
of a scandalous offense against the laws of 
the land shall, upon conviction thereof by a 
court-martial, be dishonorably discharged- 

Article VIIL 

Any officer or comrade who shall wrong or 
injure another comrade in his name, his busi- 
ness, or his family, shall be required by the 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 225 

Commander of his Camp to make reparation 
therefor, and if he refuses to make reparation, 
or if the nature of the injury makes reparation 
impossible, he shall be dishonorably dis- 
charged, or suffer such other penalty as a 
court-martial may direct. 

Article IX. 

Any officer or comrade who shall cheat or 
defraud the National organization, or a De- 
partment or a Council or a Camp or a comrade 
of the United Spanish War Veterans, shall 
be dishonorably discharged, or suffer such 
other penalty as a court-martial may direct. 

Article X. 

Any officer or comrade who, haying been 
intrusted with, or haying in his custody and 
possession, property or funds belonging to the 
National organization, a Department, a Coun- 
cil, or a Camp of the United Spanish War 
W.terans. shall wrongfully conyert the same 
to his own use. shall be dishonorably dis- 
charged, or suffer such other penalty as a 
court-martial may direct. 

Article XI 

Any officer or comrade who shall knowingly 
giye false testimony in a judicial proceeding 



226 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

instituted under the provisions of the Rules 
and Regulations of the United Spanish War 
Veterans, having first been put upon his honor 
as a comrade to tell the whole truth, shall be 
deemed to be guilty of perjury, and upon con- 
viction thereof by a court-martial he shall be 
dishonorably discharged. 

Article XII. 

Any officer or comrade who, having been 
properly summoned to appear and give testi- 
mony as a witness before a court of impeach- 
ment, court-martial, or court of inquiry con- 
vened under the provisions of the Rules and 
Regulations of the United Spanish War 
Veterans, wilfully and without good cause 
fails to appear, or refuses to answer proper 
questions, or to give the testimony required 
so far as he is able, and any officer or comrade 
who shall be guilty of disrespectful or disorder- 
ly conduct before such a court, shall be deemed 
guilty of contempt of court, and shall be dis- 
honorably discharged, or suffer such other 
penalty as a court-martial may direct. 

Article XIIL 

Any officer who shall wilfully and without 
good cause neglect to perform the duties of his 
office after entering upon and assuming the 



.Art. I DISCIPLINE 227 

same and until his resignation is accepted or 
his successor duly installed, and any officer or 
comrade who, having- voluntarily assumed and 
taken upon himself the performance of a duty, 
wilfully neglects to perform the same, to the 
detriment of the organization concerned, shall 
suffer such penalty less than a dishonorable 
discharge as a court-martial may direct. 

Article XIV. 

Any officer or comrade who shall prevent, or 
endeavor to prevent, an officer or coijirade 
from performing a duty required of him by 
the laws of the National organization, the by- 
laws of his Department, or of his Camp, or the 
lawful orders of a superior officer, or shall hin- 
der or impede him in the performance of such 
a duty, shall be dishonorably discharged, or 
sufifer such other penalty as a court-martial 
may direct. 

Article XV, 

Any officer or comrade who shall ofifer or 
do violence to the Provost Marshal or any of 
his assistants at a convention of the National 
Encampment, or to the Department Marshal or 
any of his assistants at a convention of a De- 
partment Encampmicnt, or to an Officer of the 
Day or Officer of the Guard at a meeting of a 



2j8 administration Part 6 

Camp, the said officer bein^- in the performance 
of his duty, or who, being ordered under arrest 
by the presiding officer at such convention or 
meeting, resists any of the officers above 
named, or refuses to go peaceably with him 
from the convention or meeting, shall be dis- 
honorably discharged, or suffer such other 
])enalty as a court-martial may direct. 

Article XVL 

Any officer or comrade who shall disclose the 
countersign or other secret methods of identi- 
fication established by the United Spanish 
War Veterans to any person not entitled to 
possess the same shall be dishonorably dis- 
charged, or suffer such other penalty as a court- 
martial may direct. 

Article XVII. 

Any officer or comrade who shall be guilty 
of disrespect to a superior officer in their offi- 
cial relations, or at a convention, meeting, or 
parade, shall be dishonorably discharged, or 
suffer such other penalty as a court-martial 
may direct. 

Article XVIII. 

Any officer or comrade who shall be guilty of 
drunkenness, at a convention, meeting, or 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 229 

parade of tlic National Encampment, a l^epart- 
ment Encampment, a Council, or a Camp, shall 
be dishonorably discharged, or suffer siich 
other penalty as a court-martial may direct. 

Article XIX. 

Any officer or comrade who shall be guilty 
of scandalous or disorderly conduct at a con- 
vention, meeting, or parade of the National En- 
campment, a Department Encampment, a 
Council, or a Camp, shall be dishonorably dis- 
charged, or suffer such other penalty as a 
court-martial may direct. 

Article XX. 

Any officer who shall knowingly make a 
false certificate or return as to any matter con- 
cerning which he is required by the laws of 
the National organization, the by-laws of his 
Department, or the orders of a superior offi- 
cer, to make a certificate or return, shall be de- 
graded from office and may be dishonorably 
discharged, or suffer such other penalty as a 
court-martial may direct; and any officer or 
comrade who, being charg'ed with the duty of 
auditing the accounts of a National officer or 
committee of the National Encampment or a 
subordimite subdivision of the United 
Spanish War A^eterans. knowinglv makes a 



230 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

false certificate or report of such audit, shall 
be dishonorably discharged, or suffer such 
other penalty as a court-martial may direct. 

Article XXI. 

Any comrade who shall be found to have 
knowingly made false statements in his appli- 
cation for membership or to a committee ap- 
pointed to investigate such application, or to 
have wilfully concealed from the comrade pro- 
posing him for membership, or from said com- 
mittee, any fact concerning himself which 
would disqualify him for membership, and who 
thereafter receives membership and exercises 
the privileges thereof, shall, upon conviction by 
a court-martial, be dishonorably discharged. 

Article XXII. 

Any comrade who proposes for membership 
and indorses by and with his signature the ap- 
plication for membership of a person, knowing 
that such person is ineligible to or disqualified 
from membership in the United Spanish War 
Veterans, shall be dishonorably discharged, 
or suffer such other penalty as a court-mar- 
tial may direct- 

Article XXIIL 

Any comrade who shall prefer frivolous 
charges against another comrade shall, upon 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 231 

conviction of the same by a General Court- 
Martial, suffer such penalty as the court may 
direct. 

Article XXIV, 

All disorders and neglects, which officers 
or comrades may be guilty of, to the prejudice 
of good order and discipline of the United 
Spanish War Veterans, and any scandalous 
or immoral conduct tending to bring disrepute 
on the comrade guilty thereof, and contrary to 
good morals and good citizenship, though not 
mentioned in the foregoing articles of the Code 
of Discipline, are to be taken cognizance of by 
a court-martial, according to the nature and 
degree of the offense, and punished at the dis- 
cretion of such court. 

Article XXV. 

The Commanders of Camps shall cause this 
Code of Discipline to be read to or by each 
recruit within one month from the time of his 
admission to membership. 

Section 269. Penalties. The penalties which 
may be inflicted for violations of the Code of 
Discipline shall be as follows: 

(i) Dishonorable discharge from member- 
ship in the United Spanish War Veterans. 

(2) Degradation from office. 



232 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

(3) Dej^radatioii from recognized past rank. 

(4) Suspension from membership for a defi- 
nite period of time, to be specified in the sen- 
tence. 

f S) Fines, not exceedini^" in amount the sum 
of five dollars for any one offense. 

(6) Reprimand, in such form as the court 
shall direct. 

Section 270. Essential Features- As pro- 
^•ided in section T, article X of the Constitution, 
no penalty for a violation of the Code of Disci- 
pline shall be inflicted until the comrade ac- 
cused has had a fair and impartial trial h\ 
court-martial upon written charcres and specifi 
cations and a majority of the court arc for 
conviction. 

Section 271. Liability as to Commander- 
in-Chief. As provided in section 2. article X. 
of the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief 
shall not be liable to trial by court-martial dur- 
ing his tenure of office; but at the end of his 
term, or after resignation, or removal upon im- 
peachment, he mav be tried for offenses com- 
mitted while in office or prior thereto. 

Section 272. Limitation. No comrade shall 
be liable to be tried and punished by court- 
martial for an offense which shall a]>pear to 
ha\e been committed more than two Axars 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 233 

before the issiiing of the order romenini; the 
court, unless, by reason of haxin^; absented 
himself or of some other manifest impediment, 
he shall not have been amenable to justice 
within that period ; in which case the time of 
such absence or other impediment shall be 
excluded in computing- the period of the limi- 
tation. 

Section 273. Second Trial Barred. No com- 
rade shall be tried a second time for the same 
:)tTense except upon his own motion for a new 
trial on the ground of newly discovered evi- 
[lence, as hereinafter provided. 

Section 274. Courts and Their Jurisdiction. 

a. Offenses against the United Spanish 
War Veterans for which the oft'ender shall 
be liable for prosecution and punishment shall 
be tried by a court termed a General Court- 
Martial, or, under certain conditions herein- 
after set forth, by a court termed a Camp 
Court-Martial ; provided, however, that the Na- 
tional Encampment, or a Department Encamp- 
ment, may, during any convention, bring to 
trial before a court constituted as any such En- 
campment may provide, any member of such 
Encampment against whom charges niav be 
preferred for violations of the Code of Disci- 
pline committed during his attendance on such 
convention. 



234 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

b- General Courts-Martial for the trial of 
Past Commanders-in-Chief, National officers, 
Department Commanders, Past Department 
Commanders, and Provisional Division Com- 
manders shall be appointed by the Commander- 
in-Chief, and shall consist of not less than five 
nor more than thirteen members. 

c. General Courts-Martial for the trial of 
comrades not included in sub-section b of this 
section, who are members of a Camp attached 
to a Department, shall be appointed by the De- 
partment Commander of such Department, and 
shall consist of not less than three nor more 
than seven members. 

d. General Courts-Martial for the trial of 
comrades not included in sub-section b of this 
section, who are members of unattached 
Camps, shall be appointed by the Commander- 
in-Chief, and shall consist of not less than 
three nor more than seven members. 

e. In addition to the members of a General 
Court-Martial, the officer appointing- the same 
shall detail a comrade to act as judge advocate 
of the court; but the Judge Advocate General 
shall not be so detailed, nor shall any Depart- 
ment Judge Advocate be detailed to act as the 
judge advocate of any court appointed by the 
Department Commander of his own Depart- 
ment. 

f. The member of a court-martial highest 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 235 

in rank present shall be the president thereof. 

Section 275. Camp Courts-Martial. Camp 
Courts-Martial shall have jurisdiction over of- 
fenders w^ho may violate articles i, 2, 3, 8 and 
13 of the Code of Discipline in their application 
to Camp officers ; article 17 in its application to 
Camp officers ; article 18 as applied to a meet- 
ing of a Camp, and articles 19 and 24; pro- 
vided, however, that the accused shall be a 
member of the Camp holding the Court-Martial 
other than the Commander or any other offi- 
cer, who in accordance with provisions of this 
article may be tried only by a General Court- 
Martial ; and provided, further, that any vio- 
lation of any one of the said articles of the 
Code of Discipline wdiich shall bring the or- 
ganization into public disrepute shall be tried 
by a General Court-Martial. A Camp Court- 
Martial shall consist of not less than three nor 
more than seven members who shall be elected 
by the Camp from among those eligible to sit 
on a Camp Court-Martial, or may be appointed 
by the Commander, if so directed by the Camp. 
A Camp Court-Martial may inflict any penalty 
prescribed in section 269 hereof upon such 
members as may be tried by a Camp Court- 
Martial except "dishonorable discharge from 
membership in the United Spanish War 
Veterans;" provided, however that said court 



23<^) ADMlxN'ISTRATION Part 6 

shall not inflict the penalty of "degradation 
from office" other than Camp office, and that 
no sentence by said court shall direct that a 
member be suspended for more than one year. 
The forms and procedure employed in a Camp 
Court-Martial shall be substantially the same 
as those prescribed for a General Court- 
Martial, and, except as otherwise specified, all 
provisions of this article shall apply alike to a 
General Court-Martial and a Camp Court- 
Martial. 

Section 276. Eligibility to Serve on General 
Courts-Martial. 

a. National officers, officers of Depart- 
ments, officers of Camps of and above the rank 
of Junior Vice-Commander, Past Comman- 
ders-in-Chief, Past Department Commanders, 
and Past Commanders shall be eligible, when 
appointed, to serve on General Courts-Martial. 

b. No comrade shall be appointed on a 
General Court-Martial who is connected in 
business with, or who is related by blood or 
marriage to, a comrade who is to be tried be- 
fore such court, or to a comrade Avho has pre- 
ferred the charges or who is a principal wit- 
ness in the case. 

c. AAHTcnever nrnrtirnlde. the niemb'^rs of a 
General C(nirt-Martial shrdi be comrades who 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 237 

are members of Camps other than that to which 
the accused belongs. 

Section 277. Eligibility to Serve on Camp 
Courts-Martial. Any officer of the Camp hold- 
ing a Camp Court-Martial, other than the of- 
ficer ordering the same, who is in good stand- 
ing, or any Past Commander-in-Chief, Past De- 
partment Commander, Past Commander, or 
National or Department officer, present or past, 
<^xcept the Department Commander in mem- 
bership of the Camp, who is in good standing, 
shall be eligible, when selected, to serve as a 
member of the court; provided, however, that 
the provisions of subsection -b of section 276 
hereof shall serve as disqualifications. 

Section 278. Rules Governing Courts. Ex- 
cept as modified by the provisions of the Rules 
and Regulations, the rules of procedure and 
rules of evidence governing courts-martial in 
the United States Army shall g^overn courts- 
martial in the United Spanish War Veterans. 

Section 279. Charges and Specifications. 

Charges and specifications shall be in writing, 
and shall be drawn up in conformity with the 
]^recedents followed in the United States 
Army. They shall consist of the following 
parts, namely : 



238 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

a. The "caption," which shall set forth the 
name, rank, and Camp of the accused. 

b. The "charge," which shall state the of- 
fense alleged, and cite the article of the Code 
of Discipline violated. 

c. The "specifications," which shall set 
forth the specific acts alleged to have been com- 
mitted by the accused, which acts are believed 
to constitute the ofTense named in the charge; 
and 

d. The "conclusion," which shall state, with 
substantial accuracy, the place and time of the 
alleged ofifense. If the charges are preferred 
by order of a superior ofificer, a statement to 
that effect shall follow the conclusion. Charges 
shall be signed by the comrade preferring the 
same, and a list of the witnesses shall be ap- 
pended below the signature. When violations 
of more than one article of the Code of Disci- 
pline are alleged, each shall be made the sub- 
ject of a separate charge; but w^hen repeated 
violations of the same article are alleged, each 
shall be made the subject of a separate speci- 
fication of one general charge. 

Section 280- How Preferred. Subject to 
the limitations hereinafter provided, any com- 
rade may prefer charges against another com- 
rade in the prescribed form, but no proceed- 
injTs shall be had UDon such chars^es until the 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 239 

same have received the following considera- 
tion and action, namely: 

a. If the accused be a Past Commander-in- 
Chief, the charges shall be submitted to the 
National Encampment at its next stated con- 
vention, and such oral testimony presented in 
support of the same as may be thought neces- 
sary to make out a prima facie case. If the 
National Encampment shall, by a majority 
vote, find probable cause, the Adjutant Gen- 
eral shall indorse such finding on the charges ; 
provided, hov^^ever, that w^hen the National 
Encampment is not to meet w^ithin sixty days 
after such charges are draw^n up and signed by 
the accuser, then such charges shall be for- 
w^arded to the Adjutant General direct, accom- 
panied by two or more affidavits executed by 
two or more witnesses to the acts complained 
of, and such charges and affidavits shall be 
submitted to the National Council of Adminis- 
tration by mail. If the National Council of Ad- 
ministration shall, by a majority vote, taken 
by mail, find probable cause, the Adjutant Gen- 
eral shall indorse such finding on the charges. 
In either case, when probable cause has been 
found, the Adjutant General shall transmit the 
charges, with said indorsement thereon, to the 
Commander-in-Chief; otherwise he shall re- 
turn them to the comrade preferring same. 

b. All charges preferred against a National 



240 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

officer, other than the Conimander-iii-Chief, 
shall be forwarded through channels to the 
Camp of the accused and if not cognizable by a 
Camp Court-Martial shall be forwarded by the 
Commander through channels to the Adjutant 
General for reference to the Commander-in- 
Chief. 

c. All charges preferred against a Depart- 
ment Commander or a Provisional Division 
Commander shall be referred to a General 
Court-Martial, and shall be forwarded through 
channels to the Adjutant General for reference 
to the Commander-in-Chief; provided, how- 
ever, that in case such charges are preferred by 
a comrade of the Department or the Provi- 
sional Division, as the case may be, of the ac- 
cused, said charges shall be forwarded direct 
to the Adjutant General by the Commander of 
the Camp to which the comrade preferring the 
charges belongs ; and provided, further, that 
any such charges emanating from another 
Department or Provisional Division shall be 
preferred only by the Department Commander 
of such Department, or the Provisional Divi- 
sion Commander of such Provisional Division, 
and shall be forwarded by him to the Adjutant 
General for reference to the Commander-in- 
Chief. In all such cases, a copy of the charg-es 
shall be forwarded to the accused by the offi- 
cer transmitting such charq-es. and at the same 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 241 

lime they are trcinsmitted to the Adjutant Gen- 
eral. 

d. All eharges preferred against a i*ast De- 
partment Commander shall be referred to a 
General Court-Martial and shall be forwarded 
through ehannels to the Department Adjutant 
of the Department of the accused for reference 
to his Department Commander, and by him be 
forwarded to the Adjutant General for refer- 
ence to the Commander-in-Chief; provided, 
however, that in case such charges shall be 
preferred by the Department Commander of 
the Department to which the accused belongs, 
the Department Adjutant shall not be • con- 
sidered. 

e. All charges preferred against a Depart- 
ment officer, other than a Department Com- 
mander, which are not cognizable by a Camp 
Court-Martial, shall be forwarded through 
channels to the Department Headquarters of 
the Department of the accused for reference to 
the Department Commander- 

f. All charges preferred against a Com- 
mander, or a Past Commander, shall be 
referred to a General Court-Martial and shall 
be forwarded through channels to the Depart- 
ment Adjutant of the Department of the ac- 
cused for reference to his Department Com- 
mander; provided, how'ever. that in case such 
charges are preferred by a member of the Camp 



242 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

of the accused, said charges shall be forwarded 
direct to Department Headquarters. 

g. All charges preferred against any com- 
rade of a Department not included under the 
provisions hereinbefore stated, shall be for- 
warded through channels to the Camp of the 
accused, and if such charges are not cognizable 
by a Camp Court-Martial, said charges shall 
be forwarded to the Department Adjutant for 
reference to the Department Commander. 

h. In all cases where the accused is a mem- 
ber of an unattached Camp, or holds member- 
ship in a Camp within a regularly constituted 
Provisional Division, the charges forw^arded 
to his Camp as provided in subsection g of this 
section, if found by the Commander not to be 
cognizable by a Camp Court-martial, shall be 
forwarded to the Adjutant General for refer- 
ence to the Commander-in-Chief; provided, 
however, that if the accused be the Comman- 
der of an unattached Camp, said charges shall 
be forwarded through channels to the Adjutant 
General for reference to the Commander-in- 
Chief; and provided, further, that if the ac- 
cused is the Commander of the Camp to which 
the comrade preferring the charges belongs, 
said charges shall be forwarded direct to Na- 
tional Headquarters. 

i. Hearings on charges under the provi- 
sions of sub-section a of this section shall not 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 243 

be deemed to be a trial for the offense charged 
in such a sense as to bar further proceedings, 
and in cases where probable cause is not found, 
charges for the same offense may be renewed 
if new evidence is discovered. 

j. Comrades giving testimony at the hear- 
ings provided for in sub-section a of this sec- 
tion shall be first put upon their honor to tell 
the truth in the matter in hearing, and affida- 
vits produced therein shall be stated by the af- 
fiant, as part thereof, to be declarations of fact 
made upon honor. Comrades knowingly giving 
false testimony at such hearings, or knowingly 
making a false affidavit to be used therein, 
shall, upon conviction, be deemed to have vio- 
lated article 11 of the Code of Discipline. 

Section 281. Examination and Investiga- 
tion of Charges- a. Upon receiving charges, 
indorsed and forwarded as hereinbefore pro- 
vided, the Commander-in-Chief or the Depart- 
ment Commander, as the case may be, shall 
cause the same to be examined, and if any er- 
ror of substance or form shall appear in such 
charges, he shall refer them back for correction, 
and shall not approve the same until they are 
technically correct. He shall, however, assist 
in perfecting the same, and, on returning 
charges for correction, shall suggest the proper 
remedy for any errors that may exist. The 



244 APMiXTSTRATiON Part 6 

Commander on receipt of charges shall see that 
they are in legal form and shall take pains to 
determine whether or not the charges are cog- 
nizable by a Camp Court-Martial. 

b. A Department Commander or a Com- 
mander, as the case may be, who receives 
charges shall cause the charges to be investi- 
gated and for this purpose may ap])oint a com- 
mission, who, in addition to performing their 
duty of investigation, shall endeavor to adjust 
any matter in which charges involve personal 
action by one comrade against another, and, 
if possible, to secure a withdrawal of the 
charges. After investigation, if the charges are 
to be forwarded, he shall indorse thereon his 
approval or disapproval, in case of disapproval 
stating his reasons therefor, and transmit them 
to the proper headquarters. 

Section 282. Further Action on Charges, a. 

Probable cause having been found in the case 
of charges against a Past Commander-in-Chief, 
the Commander-in-Chief shall approve the 
charges and refer them to a General Court- 
Martial for trial. Upon his approval of charges 
received bv him preferred against a National 
ofiRcer, n.Deoartment Commander, a Provi- 
sional Division Commander, a Past Departr 
ment Commander, or a member of an unat- 



Art. i DISCIPLINE 245 

tached Camp, he shall refer the same to a 
(kneral Court-Martial for trial. 

b. Upon his approval of charges received 
by him, not to be forv^^arded to the Commaiv 
d'er-in-Chief, the Department Commander 
shall refer the same to a General Court-Mar- 
tial for trial. 

c. Upon his approval of charo:es received 
by him. which are cognizable by a Camp Court- 
Martial. the Commander shall refer them to a 
Camp Court-Martial for trial ',.._. . 

Section 283. Disapproval of Charges. The 
Commander-in-Chief is empowered to disap- 
prove charges, except where probable cause 
has been found bv the National Encampment, 
or the National Council of Administration: a 
Department Commander, in addition to his 
rig^ht of disapproval of charges forwarded by 
him, may disapprove charg-es in cases where 
the reference of the charges to a General 
Court-Martial lies with him ; a Commander, in 
addition to his right of disapproval of charges 
forwarded by him. may disapprove charges in 
cases wher? the reference of the charges is to 
a Camp Court-Martial. Tn case of such dis- 
approval, the charges shall be returned to the 
comrade preferrincr the same bv registered 
mail and he shall have the right to appeal to 
the next higher authority. Tn case such appeal 



246 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

is not taken within sixty days from the time 
the comrade preferring the charges receives 
such notice of disapproval, the action of dis- 
approval of the charges shall be final. 

Section 284. Notice to Accused. Seven 
days' notice of the time and place of the trial, 
together w^ith an attested copy of the charges 
and specifications, shall be given to the ac- 
cused by the judgre advocate of the court, either 
by delivery to him in person by ihe Officer of 
the Day of any Camp, or by mailing the same 
to the accused by registered letter to his last 
known address, personal receipt of same being 
demanded. In case of service by an Officer 
of the Day, his certificate that he has delivered 
the notice and copy in hand to the accusdl 
shall be prima facie evidence of such service ; 
and in case of service by mail, the returned re- 
ceipt, if signed by the accused in person, shall 
be conclusive as to such service. 

In case service of notice cannot be made 
with attested copy of charges, as in this section 
provided, by reason of the accused having ab- 
sconded and his whereabouts being unknown, 
an affidavit to this effect by the judge advo- 
cate of the court, or the Officer of the Day, 
shall be equivalent to the service of notice and 
delivery of charges*. 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 247 

Section 285. Right to Counsel. The ac- 
cused may introduce as counsel at the trial any 
comrade of the United Spanish War Veter- 
ans who is in good standing. 

Section 286. Right to Challenge. The ac- 
cused shall have the right to challenge mem- 
bers of the court in accordance with the prac- 
tice and proceedings in courts-martial in the 
United States Army. 

Section 287. Pleas. If the accused appears 
and enters a special plea, either to the jurisdic- 
tion, in abatement, or in bar of trial, or demurs 
to the charges and specifications, or any of 
them, the court shall be cleared and shall pro- 
ceed to a finding on such plea or demurrer ; 
provided that in case of a plea in abatement for 
misnomer, the accused shall state what his real 
name is, and the court shall then amend the 
charges and specifications to meet the objec- 
tion and proceed with the trial. If the com- 
rade pleads ''guilty" the court shall hear such 
evidence as it deems necessary to enable it to 
determine an adequate penalty. If the com- 
rade appears and pleads ''not guilty" the court 
shall hear the evidence and make its finding 
accordingly. If, after notice, as provided in 
section 284 hereof, the accused fails to appear, 
or if he appears and from obstinacy or design 
stands mute, refuses to plead, or answers for- 



248 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

cii2n to tlic purpose, the court shall proceed in 
all respects as though he had pleaded "not 
guilty. Ihough the accused may have made 
any or all of the preliminary pleas, he shall be 
at liberty, if they shall not be sustained by the 
the court, or when the charges have been 
amended after a plea in abatement, to plead 
"guilty" or "not guilty" to the issue. 

Section 288. Witnesses, a. A comrade 
who resides within twenty miles of the place 
wherein a court-martial is held, and whose 
testimony is desired in a case to be tried be- 
fore such court, shall be summoned to appear 
in person and give his testimony by deliver- 
ing to him in hand, or by leaving at his usual 
abode, or by mailing to him by registered let- 
ter, personal receipt being demanded, a sub- 
poena signed by the judge advocate of the 
court. Unless sent by registered mail, service 
of such subpoena shall be made by the Officer 
of the Day of any Camp located near the resi- 
dence of the witness, and the return of such 
officer that he has made due service of a sub- 
pcena shall be prima facie evidence of such 
service. 

b. The depositions of witnesses who reside 
more than tw^enty miles from the place of trial 
(^r who, living within tw^enty miles thereof, arc 
unable bv reason of sickness or other ure^ent 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 249 

necessity to ^Ive oral testimony, may be read 
in evidence before the court, provided that such 
depositions shall be taken before an officer ot 
comrade of the United Spanish War Veterans 
appointed by the convening- authoritv to take 
the same, and shall be upon interro,G:atories and 
cross-interrof^ratories prepared bv the respec- 
tive parties, accordingf to the rules irovernincr 
the takincT of denositions for use before courts- 
martial in the United States Armv, Before 
ansAA'crincr. a deponent shall be put upon his 
honor as a comrade to answer truly the ques- 
tions propounded to him. 

Section 289. Testimony. The testimony of 
comrades shall be ^jiven on their honor as com- 
rades of the United Spanish War Veterans. 
Courts may. in their discretion, receive the tes- 
timony of persons not comrades upon their 
honor as men : but the fact that such witnesses 
are not under oath, or subject to any penaltv 
for perjurv. shall be considered by the court in 
decidin^:: upon their credibility. 

Section 290. Accused Not to be Compelled 
to Testify. The accused shall not be called as 
a witness by the prosecution, but may ^ive 
testimony in his owm defense if he desires, and 
once having taken the stand shall be required 
to answer all nuestions put to him on cross- 
examination. The failure of an accused to tes- 



250 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

tify shall not create any presumption against 
him. 

Section 291. Evidence in Certain Cases. In 

case the accused is charged with a violation of 
article 5 or of article 7 of the Code of Dis- 
cipline, the record of his conviction by a court 
of competent jurisdiction shall, if proved, be 
conclusive of his guilt. 

Section 292. Review of Record. No sen- 
tence of a court-martial shall be carried into ef- 
fect until after the w^hole proceedings, findings, 
and sentence shall have been laid before the 
ofificer appointing the court, or his successor 
in office, for his approval or disapproval, and 
his orders in the case ; and whenever the pen- 
alty of dishonorable discharge is directed by a 
court-martial appointed by a Department Com- 
mander, the record of the proceedings, find- 
ings, and sentence, having been approved by 
the said Department Commander, shall be for- 
warded to the Commander-in-Chief for his re- 
view, and such sentence shall not be carried 
into effect until it receives the confirmation of 
the Commander-in-Chief. 

Section 293. Proceedings on Review, a. 

Whenever the sentence appears to be exces- 
sive, the proceedings being otherwise regular, 
the reviewing authority may mitigate the same 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 251 

by the substitution of a penalty of less severity, 
but the reviewing authority shall not, in any 
case, increase the severity of the sentence di- 
rected by the court. 

b. In case of an acquittal which is mani- 
festly against the evidence, or if the sentence is 
contrary to the Rules and Regulations, or in- 
adequate to the offense, the court may be re- 
convened to reconsider its action and to make 
such different findings as, on reconsideration, it 
shall decide to be in accordance with the evi- 
dence, or to direct such dift'erent sentence as 
shall be in accordance with the Rules and Reg- 
ulations or adequate to the offense ; and such 
reconsideration and finding or sentence shall 
not be construed as a new or second trial. 
Should the court adhere to its original finding 
or sentence, it shall so state on the record, and 
forward said record to the reviewing authority, 
who shall then either approve or disapprove 
the same. 

c. The reviewing authority shall disap- 
prove the proceedings, findings, and sentence 
only when irregularities appear on the face of 
the record, or when the findings are manifestly 
against the evidence, or when it appears to his 
satisfaction that injustice is being done to the 
accused. In case of errors of form in the record 
it shall be referred back to the court for 
correction. 



252 ADMixNiSTRATlON Part 6 

d. The (li.sappro\'al of the proceedings, find- 
ings, and sentence of a court-martial by the re- 
viewing authority shall be final and shall oper- 
ate as an acquittal. 

Section 294. Promulgation of Record. A 

brief statemei't of the case, together with the 
findings and, in case of conviction, the sen- 
tence, together w^th the action of the reviewing 
authority thereon, shall be published in general 
orders by the officer appointing the court; pro- 
vided, however, that in all cases wherein the 
sentence is that of dishonorable discharge, the 
foregoing publication shall be a general order 
from National Headquarters. 

Section 295. Imposition and Execution of 
Sentence. Ilie time of the imposition of a 
sentence directed by a court-martial and ap- 
])roved by the reviewing authority shall be the 
date of its publication in general orders, as 
provided in section 294 of this article. Sentence 
shall be carried into effect as follows : — • 

a. A comrade sentenced to dishonorable 
discharge shall be dishonorabl}' discharged and 
expelled from membership in the United 
Spanish War A^eterans. by order of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief as of the date of the imposi- 
tion of such sentence. 

b. An officer who has been sentenced to 
degradation from office or from recognized past 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 253 

rank shall cease to hold such office or such past 
rank as of the date of the imposition of such 
sentence. 

c. A comrade sentenced to suspension from 
membership for a definite period of time shall 
be considered as suspended from all the rights 
and privileges of membership beoinning with 
noon of the day of the imposition of such sen- 
tence and continuing until noon of the last day 
of the period of time specified in such sentence, 
and then and thereafter he shall be deemed to 
have been restored to all the rights and privi- 
leges of membership without formal action. 

d. Fines shall be due and payable on the 
day of the imposition of the sentence inflicting 
such fine. 

e. A comrade sentenced to be reprimanded 
shall be reprimanded in the form directed by 
the court as soon as practicable after the impo- 
sition of the sentence. 

Section 296. Appeals from Camp Courts- 
Martial, a. In case a comrade under charges 
cognizable by a Camp Court-Martial considers 
that he w411 not obtain full justice in his own 
Camp, he may appeal to the next higher au- 
thority, through channels, for trial by a Gen- 
eral Court-Martial. Should the Commander 
fail or refuse to forw^ard such appeal, any ac- 
tion of a Camp Court-Martial taken in the 



254 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

charges shall be null and void. The action of 
the Department Commander or Commander- 
in-Chief, as the case may be, refusing to grant 
a trial by a General Court-Martial on such ap- 
peal shall be final. 

b. A comrade having been tried and con- 
victed by a Camp Court-Martial, may within 
thirty days from the promulgation of the sen- 
tence appeal to the next higher authority, 
through channels, for a new trial by a General 
Court-Martial, pending the action on which 
appeal the sentence awarded by the lower court 
may be suspended in the discretion of the of- 
ficer to whom the appeal is taken. 

A re-trial,, by a General Court-Martial, as 
provided in subsection b of this section, shall 
only be granted : 

First. When the court has committed er- 
rors prejudicial to the accused which invali- 
date its proceedings. 

Second. When the findings of the court ap- 
parently are not in accord with the evidence 
adduced. 

Third. When the court has adjudicated up- 
on charges not within its jurisdiction. 

Fourth. When in the opinion of the officer 
to whom the appeal is taken the conditions 
existing in the Camp are such as to influence 
the court to the prejudice of the accused. 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 



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Section 297. New Trial When a comrade 
shall have been convicted and sentenced by 
General Court-Martial, and after the approval 
of the proceedings, findings, and sentence, new 
evidence shall be discovered which, if present- 
ed at the trial, might have affected the finding 
of the court, or other facts are disclosed to the 
reviewing tribunal from which it appears that 
an injustice may have been done, the accused, 
at any time within six months from the imposi- 
tion of sentence, may petition the officer ap- 
pointing such court, or his successor in office, 
setting forth the facts relied on, and asking for 
a new trial. Upon receiving such a petition, 
the officer to whom it is addressed shall cause 
the facts to be investigated and if, in his opin- 
ion, there is reasonable ground for belief that 
judgment may be reversed upon such facts ap- 
f^earing in evidence at a re-trial, he may va- 
cate the findings and sentence of the first court, 
and order a trial of the original charges and 
specifications before a new court ; provided, 
however, that a Department Commander shall 
obtain the approval of the Commander-in- 
Chief before ordering a new trial in a case in 
which the sentence was that of dishonorable 
discharge. If a petition for a new trial be 
denied, the petitioner may appeal from the de- 
cision denying such new trial to the Com- 
mittee on Appeals and Grievances of the Na- 



256 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

tional organization, and the officer denyin.c: 
such new trial shall forthwith transmit to the 
Adjutant General for use of said Committee 
on Appeals and Grievances the complete re- 
cord of the trial, the findings and sentence of 
the court, and official copv of the g-eneral orders 
imposing- the sentence, the petition asking for 
a new trial with its indorsement thereon deny- 
ing a new trial, and notice of appeal. After 
appeal for a new trial to the Committee on Ap- 
])eals and Grievances, upon petition by the ac- 
cused appellant, and for cause shown, the 
Commander-in-Chief may, in his discretion, 
issue an order in the nature of a supersedeas to 
stay the sentence imposed until the said ap- 
peal can be determined and disposed of. The 
decision of the Committee on Appeals and 
Grievances shall be final, unless rejected or 
reversed by the National Encampment in ac- 
cordance with the! provisions of section 2. 
article VI. of the Constitution. Tn the event 
a new trial shall be allowed, the Commander- 
in-Chief shall issue the necessary order for a 
new trial or directing the Department Com- 
mander or the Commander so to do, as cir- 
cumstances may require. In the event a new 
trial shall be denied, an order in the nature of 
a supersedens having been issued, the Com- 
mander-in-Chief shall issue an order re-impos- 
ing the sentence or directing the Department 



Art. I DISCIPLINE 257 

Commander, or the Commander, so to do, as 
the circumstances may require. 

Section 298. Courts of Inquiry. An officer 
or comrade who beUeves that he is suspected or 
accused of malfeasance in office, or improper 
conduct degrading to reputation, may request 
a court of inquiry to investigate such imputa- 
tion or accusation, and no court of inquiry shall 
be appointed except upon the demand of the 
comrade whose conduct is to be inquired into. 
The provisions of the Rules and Regulations 
for the appointment of courts-martial shall 
apply to the appointments of courts of inquiry, 
except that such courts shall consist of not less 
than three nor more than five members. No 
judge advocate shall be detailed for a court of 
inquiry, but the junior member in rank shall 
act as recorder. The rules of procedure and 
evidence governing courts of inquiry in the 
United States Army shall govern courts of in- 
quiry in the United Spanish War Veterans. 
If a court of inquiry shall find that the imputa- 
tion or accusation inquired into is sustained, 
the officer appointing the court shall order the 
president thereof to prefer charges against the 
comrade under investigation ; but if the court 
finds that the imputation or accusation is un- 
founded, the officer appointing the court shall 



258 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

exonerate the comrade therefrom in general 
orders. 

Section 299. Officers in Arrest. From and 
after the date of the order convening a court- 
martial for the trial of an officer of the United 
Spanish War Veterans, such officer shall be 
considered to be in arrest, and he shall not ex- 
ercise any authority, or discharge any of the 
duties pertaining to his office until the termina- 
tion of the case, when he shall again exercise 
the authority and perform the duties of his of- 
fice, unless the sentence imposed in such pro- 
ceedings prevents him from so doing. 

Article II. 

IMPEACHMENT OF 
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. 

Section 300. How Commenced. Impeach- 
ment of the Commander-in-Chief, as provided 
m article XI of the Constitution, shall be com- 
menced by a resolution originating with any 
member of the National Encampment. Such 
resolution shall set out fully the acts or neg- 
lects with which the accused is charged, and 
shall allege in detail the nature of the injury 
to the organization which is believed to result 
from the same- The resolution shall be signed 
by not less than twenty-five members of the 



Art. 2 IMPEACHMENT 259 

National Encampment before any official no- 
tice shall be taken of the same. 

Section 301. Preliminary Proceedings. A 

resolution for impeachment shall be forwarded 
to the Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief, who 
shall cause an attested copy of the same to be 
sent by mail to each member of the National 
Council of Administration, together with copies 
of any affidavits in support of the accusation 
which the comrades moving for impeachment 
may desire to submit. The National Council 
of Administration shall thereupon vote by mail 
upon the question of bringing the accused to 
trial on the charges preferred. If two-thirds 
of the members of the National Council of Ad- 
ministration shall vote in the affirmative, the 
Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief shall as- 
semble the National Encampment in special 
convention at such time and place as the Na- 
tional Council of Administration shall approve, 
for the purpose of trying said impeachment. 

Section 302. How Tried. The National 
Encampment shall try all impeachments, sit- 
ting as a court, with the Senior Vice Comman- 
der-in-Chief, or in his absence the Junior Vice 
Commander-in-Chief, as president pro tem- 
pore, for purposes of organization only. The 
president pro tempore shall lead the Encamp- 



26o ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

ment in the election of a president and a judge 
advocate of the court. 

Section 303. Conviction and Sentence A 

two-thirds vote of the members of the National 
Encampment present and voting shall be nec- 
essary to a conviction- In case of conviction 
the sentence shall not extend beyond removal 
from office; provided, however, that having 
been removed from office, the accused may then 
be tried by court-martial for the same misde- 
meanors which caused his impeachment, and 
upon conviction thereof he shall be sentenced 
to an adequate penalty, notwithstanding the 
provisions of section 273 hereof, to the con- 
trary. 

Section 304. Provision for Certain Cases. 

If, upon the commencement of impeachment 
proceedings, the Senior Vice Commander-in- 
Chief be himself under charges or other in- 
ability, or if the office is vacant, then the next 
available active officer of the National En- 
campment, in the order of lineal rank, shall per- 
form the duties herein prescribed for the Se- 
nior Vice Commander-in-Chief. 

Article TIL 
RANK AND PRECEDENCE. 
Section 305. Order of Lineal Rank. The 

order of lineal rank in the United Spanish 



Art. 3 RANK AND PRECEDENCE 261 

War Veterans shall be as follows : 

1. Commander-in-Chief. 

2. Past Commander-in-Chief. 

3. Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief. 

4. Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief. 

5. Department Commander. 

6. Provisional Division Commander. 

7. Past Department Commander. 

8. Chief of Staff. 

9. Adjutant General. 

10. Quartermaster General. 

IT- Inspector General. 

12. Judge Advocate General. 

13. Surgeon General. 

14. Chaplain-in-Chief. 

15. National Patriotic Instructor. 

16. Provost Marshal. 

17. National Historian. 

18. Senior Vice Department Commander. 

19. Junior Vice Department Commander. 

20. Assistant Adjutant General. 

2T. Assistant Quartermaster General. 

22. National Aide-de-Camp. 

23. Department Chief of Stafif. 

24. Department Adjutant. 

25. Department Quartermaster. 

26. Department Inspector. 

27. Department Tudsre Advocate. 

28. Department Surjreon. 

29. Department Chaplain. 



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30. Department Patriotic Instructor. 

31. Department Marshal. 

32. Department Historian. 

33. District Inspector. 

34. Commander. 

3:;. Past Commander. 

36. Assistant Department Adjutant. 

37. Assistant Department Quartermaster. 

38. Senior Vice Commander. 

39. Junior Vice Commander. 

40. Department Aide-de-Camp. 

41. Adjutant. 

42. Quartermaster. 

43. Trustees. 

44. Patriotic Instructor. 

45. Historian. 

46. Surgeon. 

47. Chaplain. 

48. Officer of the Day. 

49. Officer of the Guard. 

50. Ser2:eant Major. 

51. Quartermaster Sergeant. 
'^2. Color Sergeant. 

53. Chief Musician. 

54. Comrade. 

Section 306. Seniority of Officers. Officers 
and past officers of the same rank shall take 
precedence in their respective grades as fol- 
lows : — 



Art. 3 RANK AND PRECEDENCE 263 

a. Past Commanders-in-Chief, Past Depart- 
ment Commanders, and Past Commanders ac- 
cording to seniority, as determined by the date 
of installation into the active office from which 
the past rank is derived. 

b. Active officers, according to seniority, as 
determined by the date of installation into 
office ; provided, however, that when an officer 
is re-elected or re-appointed, to the same office, 
his tenure thereof being continuous, he shall 
take precedence in his grade according to the 
date of his original installation into such office. 

c. In all cases where no seniority exists in 
accordance with sub-sections a and b of this 
L->ection none of the officers concerned shall take 
precedence over the others unless it becomes 
necessary to establish such precedence for the 
purpose of determining who is to preside over 
a court-martial or assume any other duty or 
prerogative prescribed for the comrade highest 
in rank present; in which case precedence 
shall be determined by lot. 

Section 307- Past Rank Defined. Comrades 
shall be recognized as, and hold the rank of. 
Past Commander-in-Chief, Past Department 
Commander, or Past Commander, respectively, 
in the following cases : — 

a. When the comrade has held the cor- 
responding active rank and filled the office 



264 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

during a full term, or, having been elected to 
fill a vacancy, or having succeeded to the active 
rank of Commander-in-Chief or Department 
Commander pursuant to the provisions to that 
effect w^hich are elsew^here prescribed in the 
laws of the organization, to fill a vacancy, has 
served to the end of the term ; provided, how- 
ever, that any Commander deprived of his 
office by reason of the consolidation of his 
Camp with one or more other Camps shall hold 
the rank of Past Commander. 

b. When the comrade has held the cor- 
responding active rank and filled the office in 
one of the associations which were amalga- 
mated with the United Spanish War Veter- 
ans, in cases where the amalgamation agree- 
ment provides that such past rank shall be 
recognized in this organization. 

c. When the comrade has been a Provisional 
Department Commander, duly appointed by 
the Commander-in-Chief while the Rules and 
Regulations provided for such appointments, 
and served to the end of the term for which he 
was appointed. 

d. When the comrade succeeded to the 
office of Commander to fill a vacancy while 
provisions of the Rules and Regulations rela- 
tive to succession to the office of Commander 
by Senior Vice Commanders and Junior Vice 



Art. 3 RANK AND PRECEDENCE 265 

Commanders were in force, and served to the 
end of the term. 

Section 308. Incidents of Past Rank. Past 
Commanders-in-Chief, Past Department Com- 
manders, and Past Commanders, shall possess 
the following capacities by virtue of their past 
rank : — 

a. They shall hold permanent membership 
in the National Encampment and in Depart- 
ment Encampments in accordance with the 
provisions to that effect which are elsewhere 
prescribed in the laws of the organization. 

b. Past Commanders-in-Chief shall be com- 
petent to preside at conventions of the National 
Encampment w^hen elected to occupy the chair, 
or called to occupy the chair temporarilv by 
the permanent presiding^ officer and until re- 
lieved by the latter: Past Department Com- 
manders shall, in like cases, be competent to 
preside at conventions of Department Encamp- 
ments of which thev are members : and Past 
Commanders shall, in like cases, be competent 
to preside at meetino:s of Camps of which thev 
are members. 

c. They shall be eligible to serve as mem- 
bers of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, 
and shall be preferred on such details to officers 
of lower grades when officers of their former 
rank are on trial. 



266 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

d. Past Commanders-in-Chief shall be com- 
petent to install into office National and De- 
partment officers and officers of Camps; Past 
Department Commanders shall be competent 
to install into office officers of Departments and 
of Camps ; Past Commanders shall be com- 
petent to install into office officers of Camps. 

e. Past Commanders-in-Chief, Past Depart- 
ment Commanders, and Past Commanders 
shall be eligible for detail as instituting officers 
to institute new camps. 

f. On parades and formal occasions, Past 
Commanders-in-Chief shall parade or sit with 
the stafT of the Commander-in-Chief, Depart- 
ment Commander, or Commander, as the case 
may be ; Past Department Commanders with 
the staff of the Department Commander or 
Commander, as the case may be ; and Past 
Commanders with the staff of the Commander, 
except when, in parades, they are assigned as 
chiefs of platoons. 

Section 309. Courtesies to Be Accorded Past 

Officers- W hen visiting, all past officers shall 
be accorded the honors and courtesies pre- 
scribed by the Ritual, Book of Ceremonies, or 
by custom and usage, for the active officers of 
corresponding rank. All past officers shall be 
entitled to retain the designation of their for-, 
mer office with the prefix "Past" as a matter of 



Art. 3 RANK AND PRECEDENCE 267 

courtesy, and may be so addressed on formal 
occasions and so described in official publica- 
tions. 

Section 310. Precedence among Depart- 
ments. There shall be no relative rank among 
Departments. Whenever two or more De- 
partments participate as Departments in a pub- 
lic parade, they shall be assigned to places in 
the column by lot ; provided, however, that the 
Department within whose territorial limits 
such parade takes place shall be placed at the 
rear of the column. 

Section 311. Precedence among Camps. The 

relative seniority of Camps in their respective 
Departments shall be determined by the dates 
of their original institution as chartered Camps 
in any of the associations of Spanish War 
Veterans which have been amalgamated with 
this organization, or in the United Spanish 
War Veterans if originally chartered therein, 
provided that their existence as Camps has 
been continuous and unbroken. Camps which 
have disbanded and, after an interval, reorgan- 
ized, shall take their relative rank from the 
date of their reorganization. Camps which 
have been formed by the consolidation of two 
or more Camps, shall take their relative rank 
from the date of institution of the oldest Camp 
included in the consolidation. 



268 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

Section 312. Order in Processions. Camps 
shall be arranged in public parades from head 
to rear of their Department in order of senior- 
ity ; and shall be formed in the same order in 
all parades where the Department formation is 
not used ; provided, however, that when a 
Camp invites other Camps to join with it as its 
guests in a public procession within its own 
jurisdiction, the home Camp shall take the 
head of the column as escort to its visitors- 
Article IV. 
FORMS AND CEREMONIES. 

Section 313. Parades. Subject to any speci- 
fic provisions now or hereafter laid down in 
the Book of Ceremonies, all parades of the or- 
ganization shall be regulated as to formation 
and movements according to the general prin- 
ciples of the drill regulations prescribed for the 
Army and to military custom and usage, so far 
as the same can be applied, in the sound dis- 
cretion of the oi^cer in command of such 
parade. 

Section 314. Titles of Address, a. Comrades 
not holding office or past rank shall be ad- 
dressed, both orally and in writing, by the title 
"Comrade" ; provided, how^ever, that a comrade 
whose service was in the navy may be ad- 
dressed as "Shipmate". 



Art. 4 FORMS AND CEREMONIES 269 

b. When presiding at conventions or meet- 
ings, the Commander-in-Chief, Department 
Commanders, and Commanders shall be ad- 
dressed by comrades from the floor as "Com- 
rade Commander-in-Chief", "Comrade Depart- 
ment Commander," and "Comrade Comman- 
der," respectively, and the same form of address 
shall be used v^hen the chair is occupied by a 
Past Commander-in-Chief, Past Department 
Commander, or Past Commander, or by a Vice 
Commander-in-Chief, Vice Department Com- 
mander, or Vice Commander, the w^ords "Past" 
or "Vice" being omitted on the principle that 
the office, and not the individual, is being ad- 
dressed. 

c. Subject to the provisions of sub-section b 
if this section, officers shall be addressed, both 
orally and in wanting, by the designation of 
their respective offices, and comrades holding 
recognized past rank by the designation of 
their respective former offices prefixed by the 
v^ord "Past". 

d. The use of the familiar stars, eagles, 
leaves, and bars, in connection with the insig- 
nia of office in this organization shall not be 
deemed to authorize the use, by the wearer, of 
the military title associated with such device 
in the United States Army; but, on the con- 
trary, it is expressly forbidden, and all officers 
are prohibited from assuming, or permitting 



270 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

Others to address them by, the military titles 
indicated by the rank straps prescribed for the 
several offices in this organization- 

Article V. 
ORDERS AND CIRCULARS. 

Section 315- Effect of Orders. The lawful 
orders of the Commander-in-Chief, of Depart- 
ment Commanders, and of Commanders, as 
promulgated in writing or in print, shall have 
the force of law with respect to the organiza- 
tion, and such comrades as are subject to the 
authority of such officers, respectively, dur- 
ing the term of office of the officer issuing such 
orders, unless modified or rescinded by a sub- 
sequent order. 

Section 316. How Issued, a. The orders 
of the Commander-in-Chief and of a Depart- 
ment Commander shall be in writing or in 
print, and shall be promulgated, respectively, 
by the Adjutant General and the Department 
Adjutant. Such orders shall be in the form of 
general orders or special orders. The Com- 
mander-in-Chief or a Department Commander 
may cause circulars to be issued for the pur- 
pose of giving information, and such circulars, 
in so far as they express the will of these offi- 
cers, shall have the force of orders. 

b- The orders of Commanders shall be pub- 



Art. 5 ORDERS AND CIRCULARS 27 1 

lished by their respective Adjutants to the 
members of their Camps, in writing or in print, 
and shall be termed "Orders", irrespective of 
the scope or subject matter thereof. Com- 
manders may cause circulars to be issued for 
the same purpose and having the same force, 
with respect to the members of their Camps, 
as'the circulars of superior officers. 

c. The orders and circulars emanating from 
an officer, as provided in sub-sections a and b 
of this section, shall be numbered in series, 
beg:inning with the first general order, special 
order, order, or circular, as the case may be, 
issued by his authority. The first order or 
circular in a new series shall state the total 
number of orders or circulars issued in the 
next preceding series. 

Section 317. To Whom to be Sent. a. A 

copy of each general order and circular of the 
Commander-in-Chief shall be mailed to all 
National officers ; all Department Comman- 
ders, Department Adjutants, and Department 
Quartermasters ; all Provisional Division Com- 
manders ; all Commanders, Adjutants, and 
Quartermasters ; and all Past Commanders-in- 
Chief and Past Department Commanders who 
are in good standing in the organization. 

b. A copy of each general order and circular 
of a Department Commander shall be mailed 



272 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

to the Adjutant General; all Department offi- 
cers of the Department; all Commanders, Ad- 
jutants, and Quartermasters of Camps in the 
Department ; and all Past Commanders-in- 
Chief and Past Department Commanders who 
are members in good standing of Camps in the 
Department. 

c. In addition to the officers and comrades 
afifected thereby, a copy of a special order 
should be mailed to any or all of the officers 
of the National organization, Departments, 
and Camps to whom such special order is or 
may be of particular interest, or where the 
Commander-in-Chief or Department Com- 
mander issuing such special order deems the 
sendinc^ of the same beneficial to the interests 
of the organization. 

d. A copy of each order and circular of a 
Commander shall be mailed to the Adjutant 
General, and to the Department Adjutant of 
the Department, if any, in which the Camp is 
located : and shall be transmitted to subordi- 
nate officers and members of the Camp affected 
thereby by mail or by delivery in person. 

Section 318. When to Take Effect, a. Gen- 
eral orders and circulars of the Commander-in- 
Chief shall be binding on all officers of the 
organization on the receipt of an official copy 
thereof, and on all comrades of Camps upon 



Art. 5 ORDERS AND CIRCULARS 273 

publication, which shall be by reading the 
same at the meeting of the Camp next follow- 
ing the receipt of the same. 

b. General orders and circulars of a Depart- 
ment Commander shall be binding on all offi- 
cers of the Department on the receipt of an 
official copy thereof, and on the comrades of 
all Camps in the Department upon publication, 
which shall be as provided in sub-section a 
of this section. 

c. Special orders shall be binding on officers 
and comrades affected thereby as soon as they 
receive an official copy of the same. 

d. The orders and circulars of a Com- 
mander shall be binding on subordinate offi- 
cers and members of the Camp upon receipt 
by them, respectively, of an official copy of 
the same ; and all such subordinate officers 
and comrades of the Camp shall be conclu- 
sively presumed to have knowledge of such 
order or circular, and to be bound thereby, 
after the reading of the same to the Camp at a 
meeting thereof. 

Section 319. Style of Orders and Circulars. 
General orders and circulars issued by the 
Commander-in-Chief or a Department Com- 
mander and the printed orders and circulars 
of a Commander shall be printed in black ink 
on white paper, and the size of each page shall 



274 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

be 8>4 inches by sV^ inches. Special orders, 
if printed, shall conform, as to color and size, 
to the rule provided for general orders and 
circulars. If written, or typewritten, special 
orders and the orders and circulars of a Com- 
mander shall be on white paper, and the size 
of each page shall be ii inches by 8>^ inches. 



Article VI. 

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 

Section 320. How Conducted. Unless other- 
wise directed by the Commander-in-Chief in a 
particular case, or otherwise required by the 
Rules and Regulations, or by special enactment 
of the National Encampment, all official cor- 
respondence shall be conducted through chan- 
nels. 

Section 321. Official Titles to be Used. The 

name of the individual holding an office shall 
not be used in addressing to said office a com- 
munication on official business, but such com- 
munication shall be addressed to the office, the 
official title only of said officer being used. In 
communications not on business connected 
with the office or headquarters, the name of 
the officer addressed may be used in connection 
with his title- 



Art. 6 OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE 2/5 

Section 322. Remittances. All remittances 
of money to National Headquarters by check, 
draft, postal order, or other method of trans- 
mitting funds, shall be made payable to "The 
Adjutant General, United Spanish War Vet- 
erans", without adding thereto the name of 
the comrade holding said office. 

Section 323. Mailing Address. Whenever 
the mailing address of an officer or comrade is 
called for, the full name, street, and number 
(or building), post-office, city or town, and 
state shall be given, in such a manner as to 
insure prompt delivery of communications 
mailed to such address ; and all changes in 
address shall be communicated without delay 
to such officers and headquarters as have 
occasion to use the same. 



Section 324. Style of Communications. Offi- 
cial communications shall be plainly written, 
or typewritten, upon white paper, each sheet 
to be II inches by 8^ inches in size, and one 
side only of each sheet to be used for the body 
of the communication. The style of official 
communications including briefing and indorse- 
ments shall be generally in accordance with the 
forms prescribed for use in the United States 
Army. 



276 ADMINISTRATION Part 6 

Article VIl. 

SUPPLIES. 
Section 325. Official Supplies. All books, 
blanks, paraphernalia, and other articles re- 
quired for general and ordinary use in the or- 
ganization shall be in form or design as pre- 
scribed by authority of the National Encamp- 
ment, shall be purchased in bulk and issued by 
National Headquarters on requisition, and 
shall be exclusively used- Any of such articles 
issued by National Headquarters shall be 
deemed to be official. The assortment and 
quantity of suppHes kept on sale at National 
Headquarters shall be regulated by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief with the approval of the Com- 
mittee on Finance. 

Section 326. Gratuitous Issues. Requisition 
blanks, application for membership blanks, and 
all blanks used in making reports to be made 
by authority of the National Encampment 
shall be issued free of charge, and the Com- 
mander-in-Chief may, with the approval of the 
Committee on Finance, issue such other blanks 
and such books and paraphernalia to new De- 
partments and Camps as he may deem ex- 
pedient. 

Section 327. Sales of Supplies. All supplies, 
except those issued gratuitously, shall be sold 
for cash, as follows: — 



Art. 7 SUPPLIES 277 

a. Supplies shall be sold to Department 
Headquarters on requisition in the form pre- 
scribed by authority of the National Encamp- 
ment, said requisition being accompanied by 
a remittance in full payment for same. 

b. Supplies may be sold to Camps directly 
on requisition, in the form prescribed by 
authority of the National Encampment, such 
requisition being accompanied by a remittance 
in full payment for the same. No requisition 
from a Camp within the jurisdiction of a De- 
partment shall be filled unless the Commander 
and Quartermaster of such Camp certify there- 
on that they are unable to obtain the supplies 
requisitioned for from their Department Head- 
quarters. 

Section 328. Discounts. Discounts from the 
schedule prices fixed by authority of the 
National Encampment shall be allowed to De- 
partment Headquarters, at such rates and on 
such conditions as to the quantity of supplies 
purchased, as may be fixed by the Commander- 
in-Chief, with the approval of the Committee 
on Finance- All sales of supplies by Depart- 
ment Headquarters shall be at the rates fixed 
in the schedule of prices prescribed by 
authority of the National Encampment. 



Part Seven 
EQUIPMENT 

SUMMARY INDEX 







Page 


ART. I. INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS. 


279 


Sec. 329. 


Insignia on Sale at National Head- 






quarters. 


279 


Sec. 330. 


Membership Badge. 


280 


Sec. 331. 


Ribbon. 


280 


Sec. 332. 


Miniature Badge. 


281 


Sec. 333. 


Honorary Membership Badge. 


281 


Sec. 334. 


Lapel Button. 


282 


Sec. 335. 


Official Pin-Bar. 


282 


Sec. 336. 


Insignia of Office. 


283 


Sec. 337. 


Insignia of Past Office. 


287 


Sec. 338. 


Past Officers' Jewels. 


287 


Sec. 339. 


Watch Fob. 


287 


Sec. 340. 


Grave Marker. 


288 


Sec. 341. 


Color Emblems. 


288 


Sec. 342. 


Ownership of Insignia. 


288 


Sec. 343. 


Use of Insignia and Emblems. 


290 


ART. II. ] 


BILL OF DRESS. 


293 


Sec. 344. 


General Regulation. 


293 


Sec. 345. 


Articles in Bill of Dress on Sale. 


293 


Sec. 346. 


Regulation Dress Uniform. 


294 


Sec. 347. 


Regulation Service Uniform. 


297 


Sec. 348. 


Bill of Dress for Naval Camps. 


297 


Sec. 349. 


Corps Badges. 


298 


Sec. 350. 


Service Badges. 


298 



278] 



Art. I INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS 279 

Page 

Sec. 351. Badges and Decorations. 299 

Sec. 352. Conformity Required. 301 

Sec. 353. Armed Color Guards. 301 

ART. III. FLAGS AND COLORS. 302 

Sec. 354. Flags. 302 

Sec. 355. Colors of the National Organization. 302 

Sec. 356. Colors of Departments. 303 

Sec. 357. Colors of Camps. 304 

Sec. 358. Naval Jack. 305 

Sec. 359. Camp Guidons. 306 

Sec. 360. Service Flag. 306 

Sec. 361. General Regulations. 307 

ART. IV. SEALS. 308 

Sec. 362. National, Department and Camp. 308 

Sec. 363. Seals: How affixed. 308 

ART. V. CHARTERS AND COMMISSIONS. 309 

Sec. 364. Form of Charters- and Commissions. 309 

Sec. 365. Charters to Be displayed. 309 



Article I. 

INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS. 

Section 329. Insignia on Sale at National 
Headquarters. The insignia and emblems in- 
dicating active or honorary membership in 
the United Spanish War Veterans prescribed 
in this article shall be kept on sale at National 
Headquarters. Complete specifications of any 
insignia or emblem not fully described herein 



28o Eoi'iPMEXT Part 7 

may be had upon application to the Adjutant 
General. 

Section 330. Membership Badge, a. The 

rccfulation insignia of membership in the 
United Spanish War Veterans shall be a 
badge of medium-dark bronze, consisting of a 
pendant attached by a link to a cross-bar, the 
whole suspended from a pin-bar by a length 
of the regulation membership ribbon. The 
dimensions and design of the metal parts of 
the badge shall be as prescribed by authority 
of the National Encampment. 

b. The regulation membership badge shall 
be worn by all comrades, and by past ofificers 
with official ribbon and clasp hereinafter pre- 
scribed. 

c- The serial number of each badge shall be 
stamped on the reverse of its cross-bar. 

Section 331. Ribbon, a. The regulation 
membership ribbon of the United Spanish 
War Veterans shall be of silk, one and one- 
fourth of an inch in width, and shall consist of 
a representation of the flag of the United States 
of America displayed with the stripes vertical, 
which shall be one-half inch narrower for offi- 
cers and past officers and varied by a border 
stripe on each side one-fourth of an inch in 
width, the color of which shall be buff for 



Art. I INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS 281 

National officers, cherry red for Department 
officers, and light blue for Camp officers. 

b. Ribbons used in connection with the 
regulation badge shall be, when no clasp is 
worn, one and one-fourth of an inch in length 
from the loop on the pin-bar to the loop on the 
cross-bar; w^hen a clasp is worn, the ribbon 
shall be lengthened accordingly. The ribbon 
shall be attached to the badge so that the upper 
edge of the union in the miniature flag will be 
in line with the loop on the pin-bar. When 
worn on the badge, or as a patch on the uni- 
form coat of a soldier or sailor, the union shall 
be toward the left side of the wearer. 

Section 332- Miniature Badge. Whenever 
there shall be a sufficient demand to justify 
the cost of manufacture, the Commander-in- 
Chief may cause to be placed on sale to com- 
rades who already possess the regulation 
badge, a miniature replica of the same which 
shall be as prescribed by authority of the 
National Encampment. 

Section 333. Honorary Membership Badge. 

The regulation insignia of honorary member- 
ship in the United Spanish War Veterans 
shall be a badge of gold or silver metal, or 
plate, in form and design as prescribed by 
authority of the National Encampment. 



282 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

Section 334. Lapel Button, The regulation 
lapel button shall be of medium-dark bronze, 
the face being in form a Greek cross, in dimen- 
sions, form, and design as prescribed by a-u- 
thority of the National Encampment. 

Section 335. Official Pin-Bar. The official 
character of the active officers of the United 
Spanish War \^eterans, for the time being, 
shall be indicated by an official pin-bar to be 
worn during tenure of office in place of the 
regulation pin-bar as part of the membership 
badge. Except for Sergeants Major, Quarter- 
master Sergeants, Color Sergeants, and Chief 
Musicians, the official pin-bar shall be a repre- 
sentation, in metal, of an officer's shoulder 
strap in miniature. In the field of the strap 
shall be placed the insignia of the wearer's 
rank and office, as hereinafter prescribed, 
which rank and office shall be, in certain cases, 
further indicated by a metal pendant attached 
to the center of the lower edge of the strap by 
a link, which pendant shall be in design as 
hereinafter prescribed for the wearer's office. 
The official pin-bar for Sergeants Major, Quar- 
termaster Sergeants, Color Sergeants, and 
Chief Musicians shall be a representation, in 
gilt metal and black enamel, of chevrons in 
miniature, points down, in design as herein- 
after prescribed. In dimensions, and in all 



Art. I INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS 283 

further details as to design, the official pin- 
bars, including pendants, shall be as prescribed 
by authority of the National Encampment. 

Section 336. Insignia of Office, a. The in- 
signia of rank and office upon the field of the 
strap shall be as follows : — 

For Commander-in-Chief, four silver stars of 
five rays each. 

For Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief, three 
silver stars of five rays each. 

For Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief and 
Department Commanders, tv^o silver stars of 
five rays each. 

For Provisional Division Commanders, two 
gold stars of five rays each. 

For Chief of Staff, Adjutant General, Quar- 
termaster General, Inspector General, Judge 
Advocate General, Surgeon General, National 
Patriotic Instructor, Provost Marshal, Nation- 
al Historian, and Senior Vice Department 
Commanders, one silver star of five rays. 

For Chaplain-in-Chief, Department Chap- 
lains, and Chaplains, a silver pastoral staff, or 
shepherd's crook, one inch in length, placed 
longitudinally in the field of the strap. 

For Junior Vice Department Commanders, 
one gold star of five rays. 

For Assistant Adjutants General, Assistant 
Quartermaster General, National Aides-de- 



284 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

Camp, Department Chiefs of Stafif, Depart- 
ment Adjutants, Department Quartermasters. 
Department Inspectors, Department Judg^e 
Advocates, Department Surgeons, Department 
Patriotic Instructors, Department Marshals. 
Department Historians, and Commanders, a 
silver spread eagle, as prescribed for colonels 
in the army of the United States, three-fourths 
of an inch between the tips of the wings. 

For Assistant Department Adjutants, As- 
sistant Department Quartermasters, District 
Inspectors, and Senior Vice Commanders, a 
silver leaf at each end of the strap, as pre- 
scribed for lieutenant colonels in the army of 
the United States- 

For Junior Vice Commanders and Depart- 
ment Aides-de-Camp, a gold leaf at each end 
of the strap, as prescribed for majors in the 
army of the United States. 

For Adjutants, two silver bars at each end 
of the strap as prescribed for Captains in the 
army of the United States. 

For Quartermasters, two silver bars at each 
end of the strap as prescribed for Captains in 
the army of the United States. 

For Trustees, a silver key, nine-sixteenths 
of an inch in length, placed longitudinally in 
the center of the strap. 

For Patriotic Instructors, a National flag 
on pike, in the center of the strap. 



Art. I INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS 285 

For Historians, a burning torch of silver, 
seven-eighths of an inch in length, placed 
longitudinally in the center of the strap. 

For Surgeons, a modified Maltese cross, of 
the pattern worn by the medical department 
of the United States Army during the War 
with Spain, in the center of the strap. 

For Officers of the Day, two silver bars at 
each end of the strap, as prescribed for captains 
in the army of the United States. 

For Officers of the Guard, one silver bar at 
each end of the strap, as prescribed for first 
lieutenants in the army of the United States. 

b. The following officers shall wear pen- 
dants attached to the official pin-bar as herein- 
before prescribed, of the design indicated : — 

Chief of Staff and National Aides-de-Camp: 
an American shield, enameled in colors, sur- 
mounted by a gold or gilt eagle with wings 
displayed : on the blue field of the shield, four 
silver stars of five rays each. Department 
Chiefs of Staff and Department Aides-de- 
Camp shall wear the same device, except that 
there shall be two silver stars of five rays each 
on the blue field of the shield. 

Adjutant General, Assistant Adjutant Gen- 
eral, Department Adjutants, Assistant Depart- 
ment* Adjutants, and Adjutants, a shield of 
gold or gilt metal. 

Quartermaster General, Assistant Quarter- 



286 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

master General, Department Quartermasters, 
Assistant Department Quartermasters, and 
Quartermasters, sword and key crossed on a 
wheel, surmounted by a spread eagle of gold 
or gilt metal, platinum, and enamel. 

Inspector General, Department Inspectors, 
and District Inspectors: gold or gilt sword 
and fasces, crossed and w^reathed- 

Judge Advocate General and Department 
Judge Advocates : sword and pen in gold or 
gilt metal, crossed and wreathed. 

Surgeon General and Department Surgeons : 
a Maltese cross of the pattern worn by the offi- 
cers of the medical department in the army of 
the United States during the War with Spain. 

National Patriotic Instructor and Depart- 
ment Patriotic Instructors, a National flag. 

Provost Marshal and Department Marshals: 
two swords in gold or gilt metal, crossed and 
wTcathed. 

National Historian and Department His- 
torians : two pens crossed and wreathed, with 
a burning torch placed vertically at the inter- 
section of the pens, all of gold or gilt metal. 

c. The pin-bars of Sergeants Major, Quar- 
termaster Sergeants, Color Sergeants, and 
Chief Musicians, shall be in design as fol- 
lows : — 

For Sergeants Major, chevrons of three bars 
with an arc of three bars. 



Art. I INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS 287 

For Quartermaster Sergeants, chevrons of 
three bars with a tie of three bars. 

For Color Sergeants, chevrons of three bars, 
a star within the internal angle. 

For Chief Musicians, chevrons of three bars 
with a tie of one bar inclosing a bugle. 

Section 337. Insignia of Past Office. Com- 
rades who have retired from active office shall 
be entitled to wear the insignia of the highest 
office formerly held by them as a clasp upon 
the proper official ribbon midway betw^een the 
regulation pin-bar and the cross-bar of the 
membership badge, the ribbon being of such 
length that the upper edge of the strap will be 
on a line with the lower edge of the union in 
the miniature flag. 

Section 338. Past Officers' Jewels. Past 
Commanders-in-Chief, Past Department Com- 
manders, and Past Commanders may wear, in 
lieu of the regulation membership badge and 
clasp, as provided in section 330 hereof, a 
special badge or jewel indicative of their past 
rank, the different metals, form and design of 
which shall be as prescribed by authority of 
the National Encampment. 

Section 339. Watch Fob. The Commander- 
in-Chief may, in his discretion, cause to be 
manufactured and placed on sale to comrades, 



288 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

for use with civilian dress or regulation uni- 
form, a watch fob, the metal parts of w^hich 
shall be either of bronze, or of oxidized silver, 
or of rolled or solid gold, in form and design 
as prescribed by authority of the National En- 
campment 

Section 340. Grave Marker. The regulation 
grave marker of the United Spanish War 
Veterans shall be a staiT of cast-iron, bearing 
at the upper end a Greek cross of bronze or 
cast-iron, in all details as prescribed by 
authority of the National Encampment. The 
grave marker shall be used to mark the graves 
of all deceased veterans of the W^ar with Spain, 
and its incidental campaigns, whose service 
was such as rendered them eligible in their 
lifetime to become comrades of this organiza- 
tion, irrespective of whether or not they were 
actually members of the United Spanish War 
Veterans. 

Section 341. Color Emblems. The emblem- 
atic colors of the United Spanish War Vet- 
erans shall be carmine red and chrome yelloiv. 

Section 342. Ownership of Insignia. All 
badges, ribbons, lapel buttons, jewels, and 
other insignia of membership or rank shall be 
procured by comrades from Department or 
National Headquarters by purchase or gift, 



Art. I INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS 289 

and the general title to the same shall remain 
in the organization. All sales and gifts of in- 
signia shall be upon the following express con- 
ditions, and the acceptance thereof shall be 
deemed a ratification of such conditions by the 
comrade receiving the same, viz., first, that the 
comrade purchasing or otherwise procuring in- 
signia acquires a special property interest 
therein, limited to the right to hold and use 
the same only while an active member in good 
standing of the organization, and in the manner 
prescribed by the Rules and Regulations; 
second, that upon ceasing to be an active mem- 
ber in good standing of the organization, he 
will, upon demand and tender of the price paid 
therefor, surrender to any officer of the organi- 
zation all insignia of membership or rank in 
his possession ; provided, however, that this 
condition shall not apply to jewels presented 
to past officers. The heirs or legatees of a 
deceased comrade may retain his insignia upon 
the express condition that the same shall not 
be used or worn except in accordance with the 
Rules and Regulations. Any active officer 
may, and he is hereby empowered, as a special 
agent of the organization, to demand of any 
comrade or person in default that such com- 
rade or person shall surrender to the demand- 
ant insignia held or used in breach of the fore- 
going conditions, and is authorized to refund 



290 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

to such comrade or person the price paid there- 
for- Such officer shall forward insignia so 
surrendered to National Headquarters, to- 
gether with a report of the case, and shall 
thereupon be reimbursed for the sums refunded 
by him to the comrade or person surrendering 
the insignia. Should a comrade or person re- 
fuse to surrender insignia upon tender of the 
price paid therefor when demanded of him as 
aforesaid by an active officer of the organiza- 
tion, it shall be the duty of such officer to for- 
ward a full report of the case, through chan- 
nels, to National Headquarters. 

Section 343. Use of Insignia and Emblems. 
a. Insignia and emblems and articles pre- 
scribed in the Bill of Dress indicating member- 
ship in the United Spanish War Veterans 
shall be worn or used by active members of 
the organization only, and by them only while 
in good standing, and not in suspension or un- 
der charges. Comrades shall be governed by 
the following rules respecting the use of in- 
signia : — 

(i) The regulation membership badge shall 
be worn by all comrades, when in the uniform 
of this organization, on the left breast of the 
coat or flannel shirt, as prescribed in the Bill of 
Dress ; and it may be worn, upon occasions of 



Art. I INSIGNIA AND EMBLEMS 29I 

ceremony, by comrades in civilian dress, upon 
the left breast or lapel of the coat. 

(2) The lapel button is the proper insignia 
for ordinary use with civilian dress, and shall 
be w^orn on the left lapel of the coat except 
upon occasions of ceremony, when the badge 
shall be substituted. The badge and lapel 
button shall not be worn at the same time. 

(3) The miniature badge shall be worn 
upon occasions of ceremony by comrades in 
civilian dress in preference to the regulation 
badge or lapel button, and shall be worn on the 
left lapel of the coat. 

(4) Comrades in military, naval, or other 
uniformed service, if permitted by the regu- 
lations thereof to wear the insignia of this or- 
ganization when in uniform, shall wear the 
same in the manner prescribed by such regu- 
lations or by the customs of the service. 

(5) Whenever the regulation or miniature 
badges of this organization are worn with 
other badges upon a medal bar holding two or 
more decorations, the pin-bar shall be dis- 
carded, except the official pin-bar of an active 
officer, which shall be worn as a clasp one- 
quarter of an inch from the top of the ribbon. 

(6) Comrades shall not wear any article of 
the Bill of Dress or any insignia indicating 
membership during suspension from member- 
ship, nor while under charges, after such 



2g2 i:(jiii'.\iEi\T Part 7 

charges ha\e been referred to a court-martial 
tor trial and until the same have been disposed 
of. 

(7) No comrade shall wear insignia of 
membership while soliciting pecuniary assist- 
ance for himself from persons not members of 
this organization. 

(8) A comrade who is under indictment 
for crime, or has been arrested by the civil 
authorities, shall remove his insignia from his 
person, and shall not wear the same until his 
case has been disposed of. 

b. The insignia, emblems, or any pictorial 
or other representations of the same, shall not 
be used by any person, whether a member of 
this organization or not, in connection with 
advertisements of private enterprises, or in any 
other offensive or undignified manner. 

c. A comrade shall not sell or pawn or 
pledge his insignia to or with any person what- 
ever ; provided, however, that he may return 
the same to any Camp and receive the price 
which he paid therefor. It shall be the duty 
of any member of the organization who learns 
of the pledging of insignia to redeem the 
same, in which case he shall be reimbursed 
from the treasury of the National organization 
for the sum paid by him in redemption thereof 
upon his forwarding said insignia, through 
channels, to National Headquarters with a 



Art. 2* UILL OF DRESS 293 

report of his action ; or if he is not able to re- 
deem such insignia, it shall be his duty to re- 
port all ascertainable facts concerning the 
same, througfi channels, to National Head- 
quarters. 

d. Insignia of active membership shall not 
be worn bv honorary members. 



Article II. 
BILL OF DRESS. 

Section 344. General Regulation. The gar- 
ments, head-dress, ornaments, buttons, decora- 
tions, and insignia prescribed in this article 
and in article I, Part Seven, of these Rules and 
Regulations, shall constitute the uniform of the 
United Spanish War Veterans; provided, 
however, that members of Camps formerly at- 
tached to associations which have amalga- 
mated with this organization may wear the 
uniform of their former association when per- 
mitted so to do by the terms of the amalgama- 
tion agreement- 
Section 345. Articles in Bill of Dress on 
Sale. All articles indicating membership in the 
United Spanish War Veterans prescribed in 
the Bill of Dress, except hats, caps, coats, 
flannel sJiirts, trousers and leggins shall be kept 
on sale at National Headquarters. Complete 



294 EQUIPMENT "Part 7 

specifications of any article not fully described 
herein may be had upon application to the 
Adjutant General. 

Section 346. Regulation Dress Uniform. 

The regulation dress uniform of the United 
Spanish War Veterans shall be as follows; 
descriptions designated ''incomplete" being in 
brief: 

a- Hat. The regulation hat shall be of drab 
felt, of the pattern worn in the United States 
Army during the War with Spain, which may 
be worn either with the regulation dress uni- 
form, or the regulation service uniform herein- 
after prescribed. 

b. Hat Ornament. A wreath of gilt metal 
with the initials U. S. W. V. in letters of silver 
metal within the wreath, shall be worn in front 
and midway between the brim and the top of 
the hat. 

c. Hat Cord. A double cord, with acorn 
ends, shall be worn upon the hat, as follows : 
for National officers, cord to be of gold bullion ; 
for Department officers, cord to be of gold 
bullion and red silk intermixed ; for Camp offi- 
cers, cord to be of gold bullion and black silk 
intermixed; for comrades, cord to be of car- 
mine mohair, acorn ends of yellow silk, cups 
of acorns of carmine silk. Past Commanders- 
in-Chief, Past Department Commanders, and 



Art. 2 BILL OF DRESS 295 

Past Commanders shall and other past officers 
may wear the hat cords prescribed for the 
corresponding active rank. 

d. Cap. Headband of dark-blue broadcloth, 
and sides and top of full-indigo gray-cadet all 
wool fabric, with vizor of black enameled 
leather; the material of cap-straps and slides 
to be flat gold lace for officers and past offi- 
cers, and black enameled leather for all others- 
{Incomplete.) 

e. Cap Ornament. An eagle with wings 
displayed, to be embroidered in gold, or made 
of gilt metal ; above the eagle's head and be- 
tween the tips of his wings, the initials 
U. S. W. V. embroidered in silver, or of silver 
or bright nickel metal. {Incomplete.) 

f. Coat. Single-breasted close fitting sack 
of dark-blue serge, or similar woolen fabric, 
with standing collar and with five large regu- 
lation buttons on the front ; two outside breast 
pockets with vertical plaits in the center, and 
two lower outside pockets without plaits ; all 
pockets to be covered by flaps as prescribed, 
and buttoned in the center by a small regula- 
tion button. {Incomplete.) 

g. Collar Device. All regulation coats shall 
have the initials U. S. W. V. in block 
letters of prescribed dimensions, in gold 
bullion embroidery on each side of the 
collar, so placed that the edge of the nearest 



296 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

letter shall be two inches from the throat open- 
ing of the collar. Members of unattached 
Camps shall wear the number of their Camp 
in block figures, embroidered in gold bullion 
on each side of the collar, midway between the 
initials and the throat opening; all others shall 
wear the number of their Camp in block fig- 
ures above the name of the Department to 
which they belong, expressed, when necessary, 
in an abbreviated form, in block letters, both 
figures and letters to be embroidered in gold 
bullion on each side of the collar, midway be- 
tween the initials and the throat opening. (In- 
complete.) 

h. Trousers. Of cadet-gray cloth, with side 
stripes of dark-blue broadcloth, one and one- 
fourth of an inch in width. 

i. Buttons. Of gilt metal in two sizes, with 
prescribed device in relief thereon. To be 
used on coats and caps as prescribed. (In- 
complete.) 

j. Furnishings. When in regulation dress 
uniform each officer and comrade shall wear a 
white linen standing collar inside the coat col- 
lar, to show uniformly one eighth to one fourth 
of an inch above the coat collar; white linen 
cuflFs so adjusted that the ends will be even 
with the ends of the sleeves of the coat when 
the hands are at the sides, and black shoes. If 
a necktie is worn it shall be of black or white 



Art. 2 BILL OF DRESS 297 

material and shall not show when the coat is 
buttoned. On occasions of ceremony white 
gloves of cotton, wool, silk or leather shall be 
worn. 

Section 347. Regulation Service Uniform. 

The regulation service uniform of the United 
Spanish War Veterans shall be as follows: 

a. Hat. Regulation hat, with hat ornament 
and hat cord, hereinbefore prescribed. 

b. Trousers. Of cotton khaki without welt 
or stripe. 

c- Leggins. Of khaki, or of light brown 
canvas, of the pattern in use at the time of the 
War with Spain. 

d. Shirts. Dark blue flannel shirts of the 
pattern in use at the time of the War with 
Spain. Suspenders not to be worn outside 
the shirt. 

e. Shoes. Tan leather. 

f. Necktie- Black silk flowing necktie. 

g. Trousers Belt. Narrow w^oven web belt, 
color to be similar- to that of trousers material. 

Section 348 Bill of Dress for Naval Camps, 
a. Any Camp w^hich is entirely composed of 
Naval veterans may adopt an appropriate and 
distinctive uniform, subject to the approval of 
the Department Commander and of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief. The bill of dress so adopted 
shall be prescribed in and form a part of the 



298 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

by-laws of such Camp, and all changes therein 
shall be submitted to the Department Com- 
mander and the Commander-in-Chief before 
taking effect. Such naval bill of dress shall 
take the place of the regulation uniforms here- 
in prescribed. Naval Camps which do not 
adopt a distinctive uniform shall conform to 
the regulations as to dress prescribed for other 
Camps. 

b. Whenever the naval jack is carried by a 
Camp, the bearer thereof may wear, in lieu of 
the regulation uniform, a suit of full mustering 
blue. 

Section 349. Corps Badges. The badge of 
the army corps in which the wearer served in 
the War with Spain may be worn on the left 
breast, or, when the hat is worn, on its left 
side, midway between the brim and crown. 
Corps badges shall be of broadcloth, edged 
with gold embroidery, or of metal, and shall be 
approximately one and three-eighths of an inch 
maximum diameter. 

Section 350. Service Badges. Of^cers and 
comrades may wear upon the outer side of the 
left sleeve, midway betw^een the seams, and 
one inch above the lower line of stitching, a 
badge embroidered in gold bullion, to indicate 
the arm or branch of the service and the organ- 
ization thereof in which the wearer served 



Art. 2 BILL OF DRESS 299 

during the War with Spain, or the incidental 
campaigns from which service he derives his 
eligibility to membership. For Army veterans 
this will conform in size and design to the 
collar device worn by the officers of the regi- 
ment or other organization to which the wearer 
belonged- For Naval veterans this will con- 
sist of a foul anchor, with the name of the 
wearer's ship beneath, in letters three eighths 
of an inch in height. For veterans of the Ma- 
rine Corps this will consist of the familiar de- 
vice of the eagle, anchor, and globe. When 
the wearer has served in more than one arm, 
organization, or ship, he may select the badge 
of that which rendered the most conspicuous 
service. 

Section 351. Badges and Decorations, a. In 
addition to the badges and jewels prescribed in 
these Rules and Regulations, officers and com- 
rades may, if entitled thereto, wear upon the 
regulation uniform the Medal of Honor, cam- 
paign badges, and other decorations awarded 
by the government of the United States or of 
a foreign nation for bravery or faithful service 
in war; and also the distinctive badges of other 
societies or associations in which the officer or 
comrade holds membership by virtue of per- 
sonal service in time of war. The foregoing 
decorations shall be worn on the left breast of 



300 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

the coat or flannel shirt suspended from a 
medal bar, or separately fastened, so that the 
top bars or ribbons of all the medals and dec- 
orations shall be in one horizontal line from 
three to four inches below the top of the 
shoulder according- to the height of the wearer : 
and they shall be arranged in the followin^ij: 
order from the center of the body to the left 
shoulder, viz., The Medal of Honor: the official 
jewel or membership badge of the United 
Spanish War Veterans; other badges and 
decorations at the option of the wearer. 

b. Every officer and comrade, when in reg- 
ulation uniform, shall wear the official jewel or 
membership badge prescribed for his rank in 
this organization. 

c. Occasional badges for delegates, guests, 
or other participants at conventions, reunions, 
meetings, dedications, or other distinguished 
events, which are provided by the authority of 
the National Encampment, Department En- 
campment, Council, Camp, or by governmental 
or other authority in charge of such event, may 
be worn upon the right breast of the regulation 
coat or flannel shirt during the occasion for 
which such badge is issued, after which they 
shall not be worn. The wearing upon the reg- 
ulation uniforms at any time of unauthorized 
souvenir badges is prohibited as detracting 
from the dignity of the same- 



Art. 2 BILL OF DRESS 3OI 

Section 352. Conformity Required. All offi- 
cers and comrades shall conform strictly to the 
bill of dress as prescribed in these Rules and 
Regfulations, and shall not vary the same by 
the omission of details required, nor by the 
addition of ornaments and embellishments not 
specified therein ; provided, how^ever, that the 
by-laws of a Department may authorize the 
wearing: of side-arms by certain specified offi- 
cers of the Department* and Camps thereof, 
within the limits of the Department, except at 
a convention of the National Encampment held 
within the Department ; and provided, further 
that the wearing of side-arms by certain speci- 
fied officers of an unattached Camp may be 
authorized by majority vote of the Camp, sub- 
ject to the approval of 'the Commander-in- 
Chief, but no officer of an unattached Camp 
shall wear side-arms except in the locality 
where the Camp is situated. The wearing of 
shoulder-straps, or other unauthorized indica- 
tions of rank is especially condemned and pro- 
hibited. 

Section 353. Armed Color Guards. When 
not contrary to the laws of the land, Camps 
may parade armed color guards, consisting of 
a number of comrades not exceeding the num- 
ber permitted by such laws, and in no event 
more than twelve, armed with rifles, upon 



302 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

occasions of public parades ; and may also 
parade firing parties at funerals of deceased 
comrades, within the above limits as to num- 
bers, armed with rifles, for the purpose of act- 
ing as escort to the remains, and to fire the 
volleys prescribed by the customs of the ser- 
vice at the grave. 

Article III. 

FLAGS AND COLORS- 

Section 354. Flags. In all cases where 
National Headquarters, Department Head- 
quarters, or Camps control the premises which 
they occupy, so that a flagstaff can be main- 
tained, the national flag of the United States 
of America should "be displayed daily, or as 
often as practicable, with as close a conformity 
to the army regulations governing the display 
of flags at forts or posts as the circumstances 
will permit. 

Section 355. Colors of the National Organi- 
zation. The National organization shall have 
two colors, as follows, which shall be displayed 
at all conventions of the National Encamp- 
ment, and carried in such parades and dis- 
played on such other occasions as the Com- 
mander-in-Chief may direct: — 
' a. The first, or National Color, shall be the 



Art. 3 FLAGS AND COLORS 3O3 

flag of the United States of America, of silk, 
the dimensions and trimmings of which, with 
dimensions and style of pike and of streamers 
and inscriptions thereon, to be as prescribed 
by authority of the National Encampment. 

b. The second, or Organisation Color, shall 
be of buff silk, of the same dimensions as the 
National color, designed, trimmed, and in- 
scribed as prescribed by authority of the 
National Encampment. 

Section 356. Colors of Departments. Each 
Department shall have two colors, as follows, 
which shall be displayed at all conventions of 
the Department Encampment and carried in 
such parades and displayed on such other 
occasions as the Department Commander may 
direct. 

a. The first, or National Color, shall be the 
same as prescribed for the National organiza- 
tion except as to pike-head, trimmings, and 
inscriptions on streamers, which shall be as 
prescribed by authority of the National En- 
campment. 

b. The second, or Department Color, shall 
be of cherry red silk, shade to be in accordance 
with sample at National Headquarters," of the 
same dimensions as the National color. The 
design and trimmings of such color, with the 
devices and inscriptions thereon, shall be as 



304 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

prescribed b}' authurit}- of the Natic^nal En- 
campment. Complete specifications of Depart- 
ment colors may be obtained upon application 
to the Adjutant General. 

Section 357. Colors of Camps. Each Camp 
shall have two colors, as follows, which shall 
be displayed at all meetings, and carried in all 
parades in which the Camp participates : — ■ 

a. The first, or National Color, shall be the 
same as prescribed for a Department except 
that the cord and tassels shall be composed of 
light blue and white silk strands. The yellow 
streamer shall bear, in red letters and figures, 

the legend • Camp, No. — and the red 

streamer, in yellow^ letters, the legend Depart- 
ment of , U.S.W.V., except in the case of 

unattached Camps, when the red streamer shall 
bear the legend, in yellow letters United Span- 
ish War Veterans. 

b. The second, or Camp Color, shall be of 
light-blue silk, shade to be in accordance with 
sample at National Headquarters, of the same 
dimensions as the National color. In the cen- 
ter of the obverse side the same device as pre- 
scribed for the obverse of the second color of 
the National organization shall appear, with 

the legends Camp No. — , Instituted 

in two lines above, and the lee^ends. Depart- 
ment of , United Spanish War Veterans, 



Art. 3 i-LAGS AND COLORS 305 

111 t\\ o lines below the device. In the case of 
unattached Camps the legend Department 
of shall be omitted, and the legend Insti- 
tuted shall appear in a second line below 

the device. In the center of the reverse side 
there shall be a device of corresponding size, 
being, in the case of Camps attached to a De- 
partment, the same as prescribed for the re- 
verse of the Department color of their re- 
spective Departments, and, in the case of un- 
attached Camps, the seal of a city, town, or 
county, or any other appropriate design denot- 
ing the locality or domicile of the Camp which 
may be approved by the Commander-in-Chief. 
Above and below this device there shall be the 
same legend as on the obverse side. The de- 
vices and legends may be painted in gold and 
colors, or embroidered in colored silk. The 
fringe, pike, pike-head, cord, and tassels shall 
be the same as prescribed for the second color 
of a Department. No streamers shall be at- 
tached to the Camp color. 

Section 358. Naval Jack. Xaval Camps, and 
Camps in which a large number of Naval vet- 
erans hold membership, may carry the Naz'al 
Jack, of dark-blue silk or fine quality bunting, 
trimmed with knotted fringe of w^hite silk, and 
bearing forty-six white silk stars of appropriate 
size on both sides, an additional star to be 



3o6 EouiTMENT Part 7 

added for each new state on the fourth day of 
July next succeeding its admission into the 
Union. The pike, pike-head, cord, and tassels 
shall be the same as are prescribed for the 
National color of a Camp. 

Section 359. Camp Guidons. Each Camp 
shall have two guidons of silk, each to be 
twenty-four inches fly and eighteen inches on 
the pike, having two horizontal stripes, each 
one half the width of the flag, the upper car- 
mine red, and the lower chrome yellow. On 
the upper stripe, on both sides, shall appear 
the name and number of the Camp, and on the 
lower stripe, on both sides, an inscription de- 
noting its permanent location. The names, 
numbers, and inscriptions shall be painted in 
gold and colors, or may be embroidered in 
colored silk, those on the red stripe being in 
gold or yellow, and those on the yellow stripe 
in red, appropriately shaded. The flag shall 
be trimmed with knotted silk fringe, yellow 
in color on the red stripe, and red in color on 
the yellow stripe. The pike shall be seven 
feet in length, including ferrule and spear- 
head, and seven eighths of an inch in diameter. 

Section 360. Service Flag. The National 
organization, a Department, or a Camp, may 
provide for use in parades and for display at 
conventions and meetings, respectively, a Ser- 



Art. 3 FLAGS AND COLORS TP? 

vice Flag commemorative of the participation 
by members of the organization as a whole, 
or members of the Department, or of the Camp, 
in any war engaged in by the United States 
of America subsequent to July 4th, 1902. 

Section 361. General Regulations. No flag, 
ensign, pennon, streamer, or other banner of 
any kind other than the flags, colors, and 
guidons prescribed by these Rules and Regula- 
tions shall be carried by any of the component 
subdivisions of this organization ; provided, 
how^ever, that all colors and guidons in use on 
or before September i, 1910, although not of 
regulation pattern, may be used and carried 
so long as they last, and upon being discarded 
they shall be replaced by the regulation equip- 
ment ; provided, further, that groups of veter- 
ans parading in vehicles, mounted, or on foot, 
with this organization, and representing not- 
able events or organizations connected with 
the War with Spain, the Philippine Insurrec- 
tion, or the China Relief Expedition, may be 
designated by appropriate flags, banners, or 
other markers ; and provided, further, that the 
Commander-in-Chief, at parades connected 
with conventions of the National Encampment, 
and Department Commanders, at parades tak- 
ing place under the auspices of their respective 
Department Encampments, may authorize 



3o8 EQUIPMENT Part 7 

Camps to carry any trophy or similar, device, 
or any emblem of the locality from which the 
Camp comes; but such authorization shall not 
be ^iven to any advertisement or to anything 
of an undipiified or burlesque character. 

Article IV. 
SEALS. 
Section 362. National Department and 
Camp. The seals of the National Organiza- 
tion, Departments and Camps shall be as pre- 
scribed b}' authority of the National Encamp- 
ment; provided, however, that the letterin.c: 
and general style of such seals shall be such 
as the Commander-in-Chief shall approve. 

Section 363. Seals How Affixed. Seals shall 
be impressed upon all ofBcial papers and certifi- 
cates, to give them authenticity. On all 
charters, commissions, and formal documents 
a double wafer shall be attached to the paper 
to be sealed, and the impression made in the 
center thereof. The upper wafer shall be of 
,l;o1(1 : the under wafer, yellow for the National 
Encampment, red for Departments and 
blue for Camps. When the double wafer 
is used, ribbons of the offtcial color of 
the organization, namely, carmine red and 
chrome yellow, may be attached in connection 
therewith. 



Art. 5 CHARTERS AND COMMISSIONS 309 

Article V. 

CHARTERS AND COMMISSIONS. 

Section 364. Form of Charters and Com- 
missions. Charters issued to Camps and com- 
missions issued to officers shall be in such 
form as the National Encampment shall pre- 
scribe, and shall be subscribed by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, and attested b}^ the Adjutant 
General in office at the time the charter or 
commission is issued, with the seal of the 
National Encampment affixed thereto. 

Section 365- Charters to be Displayed. 1 he 
charter shall be conspicuously displayed at all 
meeting's of the orcfanization to which it has 
been issued, and shall be exhibited to any 
visitor who may request to examine the same 
as evidence that the or^ranization is duly con- 
stituted and existing under the authority of the 
National organization, and no visitor shall be 
required to submit to an examination as to his 
standing as a comrade until such request has 
been complied with. 



Plate 




Reverse 



MEMBERSHIP 
BADGE 













Plate 




Obverse 



Solid Back Threaded 
Post Back 

LAPEL BUTTON 




Sv/Lvel pin 
bacU. 




Obverse Reverse 

MINIA1"^URE BADGE 



III ill 


III ms^ 


1 II 


C^.WJi 


Member 


■ 


1 ^W 




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1 rtM 


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Officer 

SECTION of RIBBON 

for use on Dress Coat 
and Service Uniform 

in Army and National 

Guard 



Plate 




EXAMPLE of OFFICER'S BADGE 
Shov^mg manner of wearing official pin-bar 



Plate 



E>cample 
of a 
PAST OFFICER'S 
BADGE 

Sho-wing' manner 
of 'wearing the 
insignia of highest 
office held 




Plate 




PAST COMMANDER 
IN- CHIEF'S JEWE 



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PAST DEPARTMENT 
COMMANDER'S JEWEL 




Plate 




EAST COMMANDER'S 
JEWEL 



Plate 




UvMxl 



WATCH FOB 

3/2 Actual Si^e 



GRAVE MARKER 
1/4- Actual si5© 



Plate 



Artillery Corps Cavalry Corps 1^-^ Coips Z'^Corps 










3^ Corps 4'^Corps 5^-i^Corps e^Corps 






7*-^Corps 8^-i>Corps SfeCorps 10^-^Corps 






ll^i^Corps 12*^Corps 13'^Corps H^Corps 

IS^Corps 16'-^Corps IT^Corps 18^Corps 

CORPS BADGES of the WAR with SPAIN, 



Plate 



HAT ORNAMENT 




CAP ORNAMENT. 



Plate 




NATIONAL COLOR 

For National Organization as 
shown j For Departments and 
Camps with pike as shown 




ORGANIZATION COLOR 

National Organization 

Obverse 



Plate 



In the three cuts 
showing Nation- 
al Organization 
Colors the leg- 
ends on both 
flag and stream- 
er should be 
changed from 
"National En- 
campment" to 
"National Or- 
ganization." 




ORGANIZATION COLOR 

National Organization 



Reverse 




DEPARTMENT COLOR 

Obverse 



Plate 




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Gamp Color 

Otverse 



Note: The leg- 
end "Institut- 
ed" is to be 
above cut of 
badge fand un- 
derneath name 
and number of 
Camp. 




Camp Color 
Reverse 



Plate 





DEPARTMENT COLOR 

Reverse 






NAVAL JACK 



Plate 



4 




CAMP GUIDONS 



Plate 




EXAMPLES of REGULATION UNIFORMS 



AMENDMENTS 



AMENDMENTS 



AMENDMENTS 



AMENDMENTS 



AMENDMENTS 



AMENDMENTS 



AMENDMENTS 



AMENDMENTS 



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